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Birth 19 Apr 1747 in New York City, New York
Death 14 Dec 1799 in New York City

FADY JAY, the youngest child of Peter Jay and Mary Van Courtland Jay, was born two years after the birth of hIs older brother John.

FREDERICK JAY(pj3/9), Peter and Mary Jay’s ninth child, was born and raised on the Rye farm. He followed his father’s profession and became a merchant. His first marriage was to Margaret Barclay, whose father was rector of St Peters church in Albany. She descended from the De Lancey family who were the political opposing group to the Livingston’s, and in New York were opposed to the Revolutionary movement. Frederick (Fady) was locally active during the time of the revolution. He served on the Committee for Safety for Rye, and was a member of the New York Battalion of Independent Foot Companies, known as “The Corsicans”. From 1777 to 1783 he was a member of the Assembly from New York. During the Revolution, when Rye was “no man’s land” he moved his parents and family from Rye to Fishkill to stay with him. His first wife died in 1791 after he had returned to New York. They had no children. He remarried the niece of brother “Blind” Peters wife Euphemia Dunscomb. He was probably buried in the family plot in the Bowery.

There is less information on his life than the other children. He played a leading family role during the Revolution period 1776 to 1783, when he became responsible for his mother and father and older sisters and brothers when Rye became very dangerous for them to live in and he needed to move them to a safer spot. His older brother John at this time was with his wife Sarah in Spain. Their oldest son Peter Augustus had been left with both Livingston and Jay grandparents.

Frederick Jay (1747–1799), the younger brother of John Jay, served a mercantile apprenticeship to his cousin James Abraham De Peyster, a New York city merchant, including a stint as De Peyster’s agent in the Dutch East Indies. After further experience in trade in Curaçao, he opened a mercantile firm in New York in 1773.

Before the Revolution he had been trained as a merchant and first worked in New York City with his cousin, and then in 1773 opened his own company. It was also in 1773 that he married Margaret (Polly) Barclay.

. His first marriage was to Margaret Barclay, whose father was rector of St Peters church in Albany. She descended from the De Lancey family who were the political opposing group to the Livingston’s, and in New York were opposed to the Revolutionary movement. Frederick (Fady) was locally active during the time of the revolution. He served on the Committee for Safety for Rye, and was a member of the New York Battalion of Independent Foot Companies, known as “The Corsicans”. From 1777 to 1783 he was a member of the Assembly from New York
New York City was captured by the British in 1777 and he and his wife were forced to leave. In a letter to his brother John in 1777 sent from Fishkill, he talks about being in Kent, CT to find a place for the family. John and Sarah had just had their first child Peter Augustus Jay that would be left with his grandparents while the Jay’s were sent to Spain and then Paris.

Fish Kill, 18th July, 1777. Dear John: Both your letters are come to hand—I have been to Kent & provided Accommodations for the Family in case of a retreat. I have done every thing in my power to get your Books removed, but in vain; not a waggon or Cart to be hired at any rate, the People here being busy in their Harvests. [148] I shall speak to Coll. Hughes to day for two Continental teams; if he has them, I make no doubt he ’ll be ready to assist us.—The peas are not yet come to hand. The Family as usual, except Peggy who has been ill with a fever ever since you left us, which is the reason of my not writing to you sooner. Genl. Sullivan with 2000 Continental Troops are now encamped in the Town of Fishkill; this affair makes the old Gentleman imagine that the Enemy will certainly attempt the River. I could wish he was as easy about the matter as myself—Mr. Platt of Kent informs me that there is a Farm of about 160 Acres with a Comfortable House to be sold near him for about £700, Lawful [money]. Would it not be better to purchase it than have the family in different houses; had I the money of my own, the farm should be mine. The old Gentleman I believe would soon come into the measure if you was to give him only a hint about it. I am Your Afft. Brother Fred Jay.

Fishkill was chosen as the initial place for the family to escape to and they were given room in the house owned by Theodore Van Wyck. In a letter to John he expresses his dismay at being then forced to move to Kent and very worried about the cost of such a move.

Fish Kill, 29 July, 1777. Dear Johnny, I have received your letter of the 21 Inst:—The evacuation of Ticonderoga is very alarming; I wish it may soon be made to appear in a less gloomy light. [157] Hitherto Fady has not been able to succeed in providing waggons to remove your Books to Kent.—My thoughts have been much imployed of late about removing from hence in case of need, but the more I consider of it the more I am perplexd., for my present state of health admits of my undergoing no fatigue. Besides I conceive my going to Kent will be attended with an immense expence, for there I can hire no Farm to raise necessarys for my numerous Family, but must lodge them in different Houses and buy daily food &c for them, I suppose at the same exorbitant rate that is extorted from the distressed in other parts of the Country; so that unless I can get a Farm in order to raise so much as will in some measure answer the expence of the Necessarys of life, I am very apprehensive it will have too great a tendency to our ruin, for we may long continue in our present distressed situation before a Peace takes place. I am indeed at a loss what steps to take and therefore I could wish you were nearer at hand to consult with you and Fady what to do. Hitherto my present abode appears to me as safe as elsewhere, and it may be most prudent to continue here till we know what rout the Regulars take & their success if any they have; but in the mean time it may be best to remove some of my most valuable things by way of precaution, which we’ll consider of when you come here. If we can purchase another Waggon it shall be done. Johnny Strang was here about a fortnight or three weeks ago when we was expectg. the Regulars were about coming up the River; he then proposed to send a box or two he has of yours at his Father’s to Salem, and promised to remove them from there in case of need & said he would be very careful of them. Nancy is now unwell & Peggy is very sick with an intermitting fever ever since her return from Albany. I am yr. affecte. Father Peter Jay.

They all stayed with Theodorus almost two years in his house near Fishkill.

Notes from Van Voorhis Book: _Born 1702_ _Lived in the old stone house down the lane at Swartoutville._ _Col. John Brinckerhoff. A promiment [sic] citizen of the colonies prior to the Revolution. He joined the American Army. A soldier & a patriot. He was the intimate friend of General Washington. His confidential adviser during the dark days of the War for Independence. His home was the head‑quarters of Gen Washington. Who spent a night & day there in secret correspondence with Comt_ Rochambeau the French minister. The time of the anxiety respecting the arrest of Major Andre. As soon as the darkness of the second night shielded them from observation; they departed upon horses. Through the Highlands. in time to arrest the ‑‑British Spy The Brinckerhoff house erected 1738. Was torn down.
Dr. Doros Van Wyck made it his home with his father-in-law, Co., John Brinckerhoff.During the Revolution, it was occupied jointly with the Jay family, including the distinguished partriot, Governor and Chief Justice John Jay. It was from this home that John Jay set off on his mission to France to aid in negotiating the Treaty of Peace with England.

It is hard to recognize now how difficult their life must have been. The revolt against England created extreme contrasts in living in the East. For those supportive of the Revolution, New York City had become dangerous for their lives. Fady had a growing merchant business which had to be left. Rye was in between the patriots and revolutionaries. Gangs of “Cowboys” and “Skinners” prowled the area and stole pillaged and burned whatever they wanted. The stable farm of Peter Jay had become an unsafe area to be in, and the provisions from the farm would end. Meanwhile the Revolution was on. The British had badly defeated the American forces on Brooklyn and had taken control of New York City. They had ships in the river and were on the verge of taking control of the Hudson from New York to Albany. Washington was fighting with a rag time untrained group. His basic strategy soon became to run and try and win fast battles. The dependency on British currency had ended and a new system of Banking was long off. Luckily for the Jays the troops and battles moved South and the military connection between New York and Albany did not happen. Also the large British force moving down Lake Champlain toward Albany died in Saratoga.

Fishkill was reasonably safe, in fact for a period it was the Capitol of New York State. What Fady was doing during this time we have little information. He unlike his brother wrote few letters, which JJ complained about.

Theodorus VanWyck had married the widow of Petrus Du Bois, my GGG Grandfather, Mary Coert Voorhes (Du Bois). I am descended from the youngest child of Petrus and Mary, Cornelius who moved to New York City and became a very successful merchant.

Mary Van Courtland Jay was very ill at the time of the move from Rye and she died in Fishkill in 1777. She was buried in the vault of Gysbert Schneck. In April of 1781 the family were robbed of all their possessions from the Fishkill house. This event was very disconcerting to father Peter and because of it Faddy decided to move the family to Poughkeepsie. It was in Poughkeepsie in 1782 that father Peter Jay died and he was also interred in the vault of Gysbert Schneck. We are still looking for the location of this vault!!

With the death of Peter, “Blind” Peter inherited the Rye house. It must have been soon after this that the family decided they could leave Poughkeepsie and move back to Rye. By 1783 the British had left New York City and it had become the Capitol of the new Union.
At the time of his father’s death in 1782 he inherited the Rye property. He lived in the house with his “retarded” older brother Augustus, his sister Eve Munro and her small child, and his blind sister Anna Maricka. To help him with the care of this family a happy marriage was arranged with Mary Duyckinck in 1789, when he was 55 and she was 53 years old. She was descended from a noted portrait painter and apparently was the original of the “aunt” in the spy story written by George Fenimore Cooper. In fact she was referred to as “Aunt Jay” in Coopers letters.

Eve Jay Munro, after the Revolution left Albany and moved with her son Peter Jay Munro back to Rye and lived with Peter et al. She was difficult for the family and John and Sarah took over the care of her son. He became a successful lawyer in New York.

John and Sarah Jay had moved back to New York City. He had inherited land from his mother’s family in Katonah which became the site of his retirement home into which they moved in 1803 when he had ended his second term as Governor. In 1783 he was Secretary for Foreign Affairs and in 1789 became the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. In 1795 he was elected Governor of the State of New York and moved to the Governors House in NYC and then in his second term moved to Albany.

Fady and his wife Polly Barclay also moved back to New York City. At the time of his fathers death Fady had inherited property in East Bay and they probably lived at 64 Pearl Street.

The house and lot of Peter Jay in “Dock Ward” is now No. 64 Pearl street. This was given by Jacobus Van Cortlandt, in his will, to his daughter Mary, who married Peter Jay. This was a water lot, which was extended by later grants from the city. The part left to Frederick Jay was south of Front street. —

Polly died in 1791 suddenly of a “stroke”. Her unanticipated death was very sudden and a matter of concern to all. Sir James had been sent for but arrived after she had died. In 1794 he married Euphame Dunscomb, the first cousin of his brother Peters wife. Letters from Sarah Jay show that this was not an “approved” marriage! Fady died in 1799 at age 52 and was probably buried in the family vault. His second wife lived until 1817 and was buried in the Jay Cemetery.

I have been questing the final resting place of Peter and his wife Mary Van Courtland the mother and father of John Jay with little success!

Peter JAY and his wife Mary Van COURTLANDT were buried in the private vault of Gysbert Schneck in Fishkill New York in 1782 (Peter) and 1777 (Mary). This we know from the book, “Memorials of Peter Augustus Jay”. But where oh where are they??

Peter Jay and family had left Rye in 1776, when it became no man’s land during the Revolution and unsafe with Cowboys and Skinners during the Revolution. They first moved to Fishkill and lived in the house of Theodore Van WYCK, MD who had married Mary Coert Voorhes, the widow of my GGGgrandfather Petrus Du Bois at that time.

(Mary and Petrous youngest son was Cornelius who moved to New York City and is my GGGrandfather. His son Henry Augustus married the daughter of Peter Augustus Jay, Catharine Helena Jay, which is how I get into the act!)

Mary VC Jay died in the house in Fishkill in 1777. The house in Fishkill was robbed soon after and the family lost most of their property. This caused Fady to move the family to Poughkeepsie where they stayed until the dangers in Rye were over. John and Sarah Jay were in Spain and Peter Augustus Jay was mostly in New Jersey with his Livingston grandparents, although he was a frequent visitor to Fishkill and Poughkeepsie.

“House of Col John Brinkerhoff/Theodore Van Wyck
Notes from Van Voorhis Book: _Born 1702__Col. John Brinckerhoff. A prominent [sic] citizen of the colonies prior to the Revolution. He joined the American Army. A soldier & a patriot. He was the intimate friend of General Washington. His confidential adviser during the dark days of the War for Independence. His home was the head‑quarters of Gen Washington. Who spent a night & day there in secret correspondence with Comt_ Rochambeau the French minister. The time of the anxiety respecting the arrest of Major Andre. As soon as the darkness of the second night shielded them from observation; they departed upon horses. Through the Highlands. in time to arrest the ‑‑British Spy The Brinckerhoff house erected 1738. Remains unaltered. At Swartoutville._”

“Dr. Doros Van Wyck made it his home with his father-in-law, Co., John Brinckerhoff.During the Revolution, it was occupied jointly with the Jay family, including the distinguished partriot, Governor and Chief Justice John Jay. It was from this home that John Jay set off on his mission to France to aid in negotiating the Treaty of Peace with England.”

I do not know where Fady or Frederick moved the family to in Poughkeepsie. The family at that time was father Peter Jay, the two blind children, Peter and Anna Marika, Augustus, and servants. Fady was married to Margaret “Polly” Barclay. Peter Jay was in declining health and he died in Poughkeepsie in 1782. There is documentation that he also was buried in the Vault of Gysbert Schenck but where is it!!!

With the death of Peter Jay, the Rye house was inherited by “Blind” Peter and the family must have returned to Rye about 1783.

Fady inherited property in the East Bay and probably left Poughkeepsie about the same time. His first wife Polly Barclay died in NYC in 1791. Faddy remarried in 1794, the first cousin of his older brother “Blind” Peter’s wife. This marriage was not popular with the family! Fady died in New York in 1799 and I do not have evidence of where he was buried. Probably the family vault.

This is a lot more information than the story probably needs, but the whereabouts of the Vault of Gysbert Schenck has been a family mystery.

My wife and I decided to take a trip to Fishkill this summer in part to see if we could find where they were buried.

It is just off the Taconic where it meets Interstate 84 and crosses the Hudson on the Hamilton Fish Bridge, (another cousin!,) at Newburgh. Still a quiet town with a strong sense of its history. It for a short while early in the Revolution was the capital of New York State, and as part of its history was a center where Washington, Jay and other of our Revolutionary leaders met. Spies et al. It has been changed by IBM, a prison, and a huge trucking storage center!

Much of my Du Bois ancestry is here. My original to this country ancestor was Peter Du Bois who immigrated to Fishkill from Leyden, Holland, and started the Dutch Reform Church there. He is buried in their cemetery! Also my mothers family go back to Van Wycks who were original settlers of Fishkill.

However no Gysbert Scheneck! Also the old house of Theodore Van Wyck had been torn down. It had badly deteriorated and was on property owned by IBM. We did find in Hopewell Junction which is an adjoining town a Vault, but full of Van Wycks! No Peter Jay.

We made contact with several people who had a big interest in Fishkill and it’s surroundings history which may give us some clues, but there seems to be no record of a vault of Gysbert Schneck. Could he be in Poughkeepsie?

FOURTH GENERATION: Children of JOHN JAY and SARAH LIVINGSTON. AJ-PJ-JJ-PAJ

1. PETER AUGUSTUS JAY and MARY Rutherfurd CLARKSON.

Fourth Generation. Peter Augustus JAY (January 24, 1776 – February 22, 1843) was the eldest son of New York’s only native Founding Father, John Jay. Peter was one of 6 children born to John Jay and Sarah Livingston Jay, and one of 2 boys (brother William was born in 1789) with 4 sisters: Susan (born and died in 1780); Maria (b. 1782), Ann (b. 1783) and Sarah Louisa (b. 1792).

Peter Augustus JAY was born at “Liberty Hall,” in 1776, at the home of his grandparents’, the Livingstons, in Elizabethtown, New Jersey. Like his father, he graduated from King’s College, the precursor of Columbia University. Notably following his graduation in 1794, Peter Augustus acted as private secretary to his father in London for the Jay Treaty.[1] The young Jay studied law and established a practice in New York City with his cousin Peter Jay Munro, carrying on a family tradition of public service. He married Mary Rutherfurd CLARKSON, daughter of General Matthew Clarkson, in 1807 [2][3] and they had 8 children.

General Matthew Clarkson married (first) May 24, 1785, Mary, daughter of Walter and Catherine (Alexander) Rutherfurd. He was the son of Sir John Rutherfurd, of Edgerston, Scotland, the younger brother of Hon. Robert, Baron Rutherfurd, and Catherine Alexander was the daughter of James Alexander, celebrated as a colonial lawyer, and sister of Major-General William Alexander, titular Lord Stirling, of revolutionary fame. Mrs. Clarkson died July 2, 1786. General Clarkson married (second) February 14, 1792,
Sally, daughter of Samuel and Susan ( Mabson ) Cornell. Samuel Cornell was a descendant of Richard Cornell, an early settler on Long Island and the owner of much property in North Carolina, but who lost it by confiscation, being a Tory. By the first marriage he had a single child, and six hy the latter marriage.
Children: i. Mary RUTHERFORD, born July 2, 1786, died December 24, 1838; married July 29. 1807, Peter Augustus JAY, eldest son of Chief Justice John Jay and his wife, Sarah Van Brugh (Livingston) Jay

From 1812 to 1817, Peter Augustus Jay helped found the Bank for Savings (thereby contributing to the establishment of the New York State savings bank system). As a Federalist, he was a member from New York City of the New York State Assembly in 1816, during which time he was active in arranging the financing for the construction of the Erie Canal. He ran many times for Congress, but was always defeated by the Democratic-Republican candidates. From 1819 to 1821, he was Recorder of New York City. He was a delegate from Westchester Co. to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1821. He helped found the New York Law Institute in 1828, which today is the oldest law library in New York City. Jay was President of New York Hospital (1827–1833), Chairman of the Board of Trustees, King’s College and President of the New York Historical Society (1840–1842).[4] For a time he was also a Westchester County Judge.[5]

Peter Augustus Jay and Manumission
Jay shared his father’s commitment to social justice and actively pursued greater rights for African Americans. In his commitment to reform, he served as President of the New York Manumission Society in 1816 and President of the New York Public School Society which was anti-slavery and concerned with greater humanitarianism towards the poor.[6] Jay is best known for giving a speech in 1821 at the New York State Constitutional Convention as a delegate arguing that the right to vote should be extended to free African Americans. Despite his impassioned argument, Jay’s motion for extending suffrage was overruled.[7)

1838 Peter Augustus Jay House
Peter Augustus legally received the Jay Property in Rye from his father in 1822 though original account records show that he and his wife Mary were handling household expenses as for the Rye estate as early as 1814. Under his father’s aegis, Peter Augustus installed European styled stone ha-has on the property and planted elm trees. His father John Jay died in 1829. In 1836, Peter Augustus contracted with a builder, Edwin Bishop, to take down the failing farmhouse that had been barraged by the British during the Revolutionary War. Reusing structural elements from “The Locusts” where his father grew up as a boy, Peter Augustus Jay helped create the Greek Revival mansion that stands there today. Unfortunately his wife Mary would not live to see the house completed, as she died in Madeira on December 24, 1838. Peter Augustus Jay died in 1843 and the Rye house passed to his son, John Clarkson Jay.[8] Both were buried in the Jay Cemetery. Plot H3

The 1838 Peter Augustus Jay House is a National Historic Landmark as well as a Save America’s Treasures Project; NHL designation is the highest recognition conferred by the US government for a historic site—out of more than 80,000 places on the National Register, only about 2,430 are NHLs. The Jay mansion is currently being preserved and restored by the non-profit organization, the Jay Heritage Center, for use as an educational center with programs in American History. In November 2008, it became the first NHL structure in Westchester County and the oldest NHL in New York State to be fitted with a geothermal heating and cooling system.

1. JOHN CLARKSON JAY was the oldest son of Peter Augustus and Mary. He graduated from Columbia College and received his M.D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, but he never practiced medicine. As a small boy he became fascinated with seashells an interest that continued for him as an adult. He spent much of his life collecting seashells and became a world authority on conchology. His seashell collection was presented to the Museum of Natural History on his death. He married Laura PRIME.

2. MARY RUTHERFORD JAY was the second child. She was a favorite daughter. Mary married the brother of her brother, John Clarkson Jay’s, wife, Frederick Prime. Tragically Mary died following the birth of a daughter in 1835
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. SARAH JAY the third child, married and Englishman, William Dawson.

4. CATHARINE HELENA JAY was the fourth child of Peter and Mary Jay. She married Henry Augustus Du Bois. (see decendants of Robert Ogden Du Bois and Alice Mason).

6. PETER AUGUSTUS JAY Peter and Mary’s second son, was described by General De Peyster, as “a perfect specimen of the typical French nobility, pure blood; handsome; well made; graceful; easy, agreeable, and as full of elegant wickedness as an egg of meat. Women, lovely women adored him and of every class; he was a charming fellow; not able but attractive.”!! He married Josephine Pearson and they had one child Augustus. Both he and his wife died soon after the birth of their one child.

7. ELIZABETH CLARKSON JAY died unmarried. During her life she was one of the most celebrated hostesses in New York of her day. She gave luncheons that became famous and included the wise and powerful of the City. She apparently would wear a black voluminous gown with a cameo brooch and sit from lunch to dinner and received anyone who came.

8. SUSAN MATILDA JAY the youngest child of Peter and Mary Jay married her second cousin Matthew Clarkson. He was the son of David Clarkson and Elizabeth Streatfeild. They had one child, Banyer. BANYER CLARKSON, married Helen Sheldon Smith. They lived in New York and built a summer estate in Tyringham, Mass. Like his father, Banyer was a chronicler of the times. He kept endless scrap books and records. On a trip to Europe in 1858, he kept a notebook of the 123 hotels they stayed in!! His wife, who had a lisp, raised phlox. To make the phlox bloom better she also raised sheep, since the sheep manure was the best fertilizer for her phlox. While his wife lisped, Banyer unfortunately stuttered, and has been known as B-B-B-B-Banyer by the family. Helen disliked small boys and dogs, which was perhaps why they had no children. The Tyringham House was willed to AMDB.

JOHN CLARKSON JAY+** MD Birth 11 Sep 1808 in New York City, Westchester, New York, Death 15 Nov 1891 in Rye, Westchester, New York, Married LAURA PRIME+** Birth 17 Feb 1812 in New York City, New York, Death 30 Jul 1888 in Rye, Westchester, New York, They had seven children. Both he and his wife were buried in the Jay Cemetery. He was the first person to manage the Cemetery and at the time of his death a corporation was formed with three trustees to manage the property.

Dr. John Clarkson Jay, a son of Peter Augustus Jay and grandson of Chief Justice John Jay, a distinguished member of the First Continental Congress, died at his home, “Rye,” at Rye, Westchester County, N. Y., on Sunday, being in the eighty-fourth year of his age. The immediate cause of his death was senile gangrene. Mr. Jay was graduated from Columbia College in 1827, and afterward took his diploma as M. D. Upon his marriage with Laura Prime, a daughter of Nathaniel Prime, a well-known banker, he left the practice of medicine and for a short time was engaged in the banking business, but in 1843 retired from both business and professional pursuits, to live at the country seat at Rye, on Long Island Sound, left to him by his father’s will. This beautiful residence gave him full occupation, as it embraced upward of 400 acres of land.

Dr. Jay was well known in the scientific world as a specialist in Conchology, and his collection of shells was for many years the most noted in the United States. It was purchased several years ago by Miss Catharine Wolfe, and presented by her to the American Museum of Natural History.

Dr. Jay was for many years a trustee of Columbia College, was one of the early presidents of the old New York Club, and was one of the founders of the New York Yacht Club. He was a Republican in politics, and one of the early members of the Union League Club of this city. An Episcopalian, he was a moderate Churchman, strict in his own religious observances, but not in the least intolerant as to the views of others.

Dr. Jay was also actively interested in the Lyceum of Natural History (now the New York Academy of Sciences) and was its Treasurer from 1832 to 1843. At this time he was a man of twentyfive or thirty, of light complexion, open and pleasing countenance, and somewhat nervous temperament. During his more vigorous years Dr. Jay was much interested in aquatic sports and was the owner of a famous yacht called “Coquille.” The valuable addition to the treasures of the Natural History Museum purchased by Miss Wolfe is now known as the Jay Collection. The shells gathered during the expedition to Japan under command of Commodore Matthew C. Perry were submitted to Dr. Jay and he wrote the article on them that appeared in the Government Reports. Dr. Jay was the author of ” Catalogue of Recent Shells,” which was published here in 1835;” “Descriptions of New and Rare Shells,” and of later editions of his Catalogue, in which heenumerated about 11,000 wellmarked varieties and about 7,000 well-established species.

DESCENDANTS OF JOHN CLARKSON JAY and LAURA PRIME
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Sixth Generation. Children of JOHN CLARKSON JAY and LAURA PRIME
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1. Sixth Generation Laura JAY+ Birth Aug 1832 in New York, Death 1910 in Carbondale, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, Married Charles Pemberton WURTS+ Birth 4 Jan 1824 in Montville Morris, New Jersey Death 11 Aug 1892 in Bar Harbor, Hancock, Maine, They had six children. They are both buried in the Jay Cemetery. (6/1)

1. Seventh Generation John WURTS Birth 10 Jul 1855 in Pennsylvania Death 1936 in Jacksonville, St Johns, Florida, Married Florence la TOURETTE Birth May 1860 in Northfield, Staten Island, New York Death 1922 in Alachua, Florida, United States. They had six children.
John Wurts, B.A. 1878. Born July 10,1855, in Carbondale, Pa. Died August 6,1936, in Pasadena, Calif. Father, Charles Pemberton Wurts, general superintendent Delaware & Hudson Canal Company, Carbondale; son of George and Abigail (Pettit) Wurts of Boonton, N.J. Mother, Laura (Jay) Wurts; daughter of John Clarkson Jay (B.A. Columbia 1827, M.D. 1831) and Laura (Prime) Jay of Rye, N.Y. Yale relatives include: William Livingston (B A. 1741) (great-great-great-grandfather); Peter VanB. Livingston (B.A. 1731), John Livingston (B.A. 1733), and Philip Livingston (B.A. 1737) (great-great-great-great-uncles); Peter A. Jay (honorary M.A. J798) (great-grandfather); William Jay (B.A. 1807) (great-great- uncle), and Albert S. Wurts, ’64, Edward V. Wurts, ’92 S., Pierre Jay, ’92, and John Jay, ’98 (cousins). Hopkins Grammar School. On Class Football Team Freshman andSophomore years; member Delta Kappa; left college in Sophomore year; enrolled with graduates of Class of 1878 in 1905. Engaged in sheep farming in Fayetteville, W.Va., 1878-82; at- tended Yale School of Law 1882-84 (LL.B. 1884; won John Addison Porter Prize 1883); member of law firm of Wurts & Fletcher, Jackson- ville, Fla., 1884-95; instructor in elementary law and real property Yale School of Law 1895-96, assistant professor of law 1896-97, pro- fessor of elementary law, real property, and trusts 1897-1903, Lafa- yette S. Foster Professor of Common Law 1903-20, and professor emeritus since 1920; exchange professor at University of California 1914-15; lecturer on law of contracts U.S. Military Academy 1916 and of prerogative writs University of Florida 1922-23; had lived in New Haven, Conn., and Melrose, Fla., since retirement; LL.M. Yale 1889 and honorary M.A. 1897; author: The Anti-Slavery Movement wttb Relationto theFederalConstitution(1883), Casesin FederalPrac- tice (1905), and The Law of Habeas Corpus (1915); compiled Index- Digest of the Decisions of the Supreme Court of the State of Florida, Volumes 1-23 inclusive (1889 and subsequent editions); edited Washburn’s A ^treatise on the American Lavs of Real Property (190a); contributed to Tale Lavs Journal; member American Bar Association and American Social Science Association. Married (1) June 26,1878, in Bergen Point, N.J., Florence, daughter of Seguine and Lavinia (Young) LaTourette. Children: John Conrad, ex-’00 S. (died 1911); Bertha, the wife of James L. Boyce, *oi; Albert; Laura Jay; Burkhardt; and Eleanor (Yale School of the Fine Arts 1906-07), the wife of Thomas Wallace, 3d, ex-’14. Mrs. Wurts died March 27, 1922. Married (2) October 2, 1924, in New Haven, Louise Beverley Gue Johnson, daughter of Theron Rudd and Mary Josephine (Smith) Gue. Death due to chronic myocarditis. Buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif. Survived by wife, daughters, two sons, and a brother, P. Jay Wurts, ’91 S. His brothers Rudolf J. Wurts, ’78, Charles P. Wurts, ’80, and Alexander J. Wurts, ’83 S., died in 1935, 1930, and 1932 respectivelyn.

Eighth Generation. Children of John WURTS and Florence la TOURETTE. AJ-PJ-JJ-PAJ-JCJ-LJW-JW-

1. John Conrad WURTZ Birth 2 May 1879 in West Virginia Death 3 Jan1911
2. Bertha C WURTZ Birth 27 Jun 1880 in West Virginia Death 19 May 1959 in Monterey married James H. BOYCE Birth Apr 1875 in New York Death They had four children.
3. Albert WURTS+ Birth Dec 1881 in West Virginia Death 1949
Married Anna N BARRETT Birth 14 Jan 1887 in Pottstown, Pennsylvania Death 3 Jun 1965 in Springfield, Windsor, Vermont. He was buried in the Jay Cemetery.
4. Laura Prime Wurts + Birth Aug 1883 in Connecticut Death 1930 buried in The Jay Cemetery, Rye
5. Burkhardt WURTS Birth 27 Jan 1886 in Florida Death 13 Jul 1960 in San Mateo married Muriel LNUK Birth abt 1894 in England
Death They had four children.
6. Eleanor WURTS Birth 5 February 1889 in Jacksonville, Duval, Florida, Death 06/26/1971 in New Haven, Connecticut, married Thomas WALLACE III Birth 05/19/1888 in New Haven, Connecticut, Death 2/ /1972 in Castine, Maine, They had three children.

2. Seventh generation. Rudolph WURTS. (1856-1935)
When Rudolph Wurts was born on December 1, 1856, in Melbourne, Australia, his father, Charles, was 32 and his mother, Laura, was 24. He married Annie Lowther on February 12, 1887, in Melbourne, Australia. They had two children during their marriage. He died in 1935 in St Kilda, Victoria, at the age of 78.

3. Seventh generation. Charles Pemberton WURTS (1859-1930)
When Charles Pemberton Wurts was born in May 1859 in Pennsylvania, his father, Charles, was 35 and his mother, Laura, was 26. He married Henrietta Ogden Strong in 1894. They had two children during their marriage. He died on March 27, 1930, in Chicago, Illinois, at the age of 70.

4. Seventh Generation. Alexander Jay WURTS was born 03 Mar 1862 in Carbondale, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, USA as the first child of Charles Pemberton WURTS and Laura JAY. He had three siblings, namely: Martha Haskins, Pierre Jay, and John. He died 21 Jan 1932 in Pittsburgh City, Allegheny, Pennsylvania. When he was 28, He married Jeanie Lowrie CHILDS 30 Jun 1890.

Alexander Jay WURTS and Jeanie Lowrie CHILDS had the following children:

1. Thomas Howe Childs WURTS was born 02 May 1891 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He died Dec 1964.
2. Laura Jay WURTS was born 16 Sep 1895 in Pittsburg, Pa. She died 1941 in Germany. She married Douglas Chandler 27 Aug 1924 in Bar Harbor, Hancock, Maine, USA.

5. Seventh Generation. .Martha Haskins WURTS+
When Martha Haskins Wurts+ was born on June 17, 1863, in Carbondale, Penna, her father, Charles, was 39 and her mother, Laura, was 30. She had five brothers. She died on April 29, 1931, in Fulton, Georgia, at the age of 67, and was buried in Rye, New York.

6. Seventh Generation. Pierre Jay WURTS+
Pierre Jay WURTS+ was born on July 16, 1869, in Nice, France, He married Edith Maud BENEDIET about 1890. They had one child during their marriage. He died in 1953 at the age of 83. Both he and his wife were buried in the Jay Cemetery.

COWLES “COKE” ANDRUS, Med 1921, was a worldwide leader in cardiology and instrumental in its development as an independent medical discipline and major component of modern medicine. A faculty member at Hopkins for more than 50 years, he made significant contributions to heart research, teaching, and patient care. Dr. Andrus was the first director of the Cardiology Division, served as assistant dean of the medical faculty, and founded and directed the Cardiovascular Division.
President of the American Heart Association from 1954 to 1955, Dr. Andrus also held many federal government advisory positions, including chief of the Division of Medicine in the Office of Scientific Research and Development. His national and international standing in the field of cardiology was reflected in his appointment by President John F. Kennedy to chair the Second National Conference on Cardiovascular Disease in 1963. He remained an active clinician and teacher until his death in 1978 at the age of 82.

Dr. Andrus’ widow, MIRIAM “JAY” ANDRUS–whose formal education was in international law and government, languages, and music–pursued her avocation of photography. A world traveler, she concentrated on photographing people, animals, and natural forms. In addition to her endowment of this professorship, she also established a scholarship fund in her husband’s name and the Miriam Jay Wurts Andrus Center for Community Services at the Geriatrics Center located on the Hopkins Bayview campus. Mrs. Andrus died in 2000.

2. Sixth Generation. Mary Jane JAY+ Birth 3 Jun 1837 in Rye, New York Death 27 Jun 1897 married Jonathan EDWARDS+ Birth 6 Nov 1821 in New York City Death 30 May 1882 They had one children. Both were buried in the Jay Cemetery. (6/3)
Jonathen Edwards great grandfather was the Rev Jonathen EDWARDS.
Jonathan Edwards (October 5, 1703 – March 22, 1758) was a colonial American Congregational preacher, theologian, and missionary to Native Americans. Edwards “is widely acknowledged to be America’s most important and original philosophical theologian”[1]. His work is very broad in scope, but he is often associated with his defense of Calvinist theology, the metaphysics of theological determinism, and the Puritan heritage. His famous sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” emphasized the just wrath of God against sin and contrasted it with the provision of God for salvation; the intensity of his preaching sometimes resulted in members of the audience fainting, swooning, and other more obtrusive reactions. The swooning and other behaviors in his audience caught him up in a controversy over “bodily effects” of the Holy Spirit’s presence.

1. Laura Jay EDWARDS+ Birth 20 Aug 1862 in New York City, New York Death 1937 . Unmarried. She was buried in the Jay Cemetery.

3. Sixth Generation. Cornelia JAY+ Birth 1839 in New York Death 1907 in Rye, Westchester, New York, Unmarried. Buried in the Jay Cemetery. Wrote diary during the Civil War.
In April 1861, three weeks after celebrating her 22nd birthday, Cornelia Jay, granddaughter of native New Yorker John Jay, began a diary that she would keep throughout America ’s bloodiest battle: the Civil War between the Union and the Confederacy. Her entries, written at her family’s Rye home and in Manhattan , are not grand or sweeping like the paragraphs of a historical novel; in fact it is often her unadulterated candor and brevity which gives the events she records greater clarity these 150 years later. The soldiers on her pages, depicted equally in all their heroism or frailty, feel like our contemporaries thanks to the unstudied poignancy of her writing. And because her voice is unique, Cornelia is an irresistible witness to our mid 19th century past particularly in this sesquicentennial year. Her accounts substantiate the political and personal turmoil that clashing North and South ideologies about the role of government and the issue of slavery created for all people of all races and genders – even the descendants of a man who advocated for emancipation his entire career. This makes her diary all the more fascinating as we grapple to understand modern incarnations of social inequity and civil war. To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, JHC will share some of the entries from Cornelia’s diary with My Rye each week and put them in context of historic events. These excerpts will illustrate Cornelia’s fears and hopes for the fate of her family, friends and the town that she loved. In revealing these stories for the first time to the public, we open a very personal window into her life and the lives of the Jay Family in Rye . The Civil War stories of other Rye residents like the Van Rensselaers and the Wainwrights will also come to life and inspire us to picture what Rye looked like over a century and a half ago. Susanne Clary Article

4. Sixth Generation. Rev Peter Augustus JAY+ Birth 16 Jun 1841 in New York City, Death 11 Oct 1875 in Rye, Westchester, New York, married Julia POST+ Birth 21 Jan 1847 in New York City, New York, Death 18 Feb 1929 in New York City, New York, They were both buried in the Jay Cemetery. They had four children.

Peter became an Episcopal deacon and priest. Growing up as he did during the Civil War, a time when Rye was active securing volunteers, he raised a local militia for the Union and became its Captain. With several absences due to the war, he ultimately graduated #14 from Columbia College in 1863. The summer afterwards, he went with his company to Harrisburg, and to Fort Marshall near Baltimore and in 1864 could be found with his company at Fort Richmond, Staten Island. Later his company had the honor of attending Lincoln’s inaugural in 1865. After the war ended, from 1866-68 he pursued the ministry, graduating from General Theological Seminary in New York.
1868 was a momentous year — he accepted his first position at St. Thomas, Vernon and on March 30th, 1868, was married to Julia Post in the Church of the Covenant in Manhattan her family’s church (Park Avenue & 35th) by Dr. George L. Prentiss (Rector of Church of the Covenant) and Mr. Reese F. Alsop (Rector of Christ’s Church, Rye).
On May 23rd, 1868, he was ordained a deacon with his class on Trinity Sunday at the Church of the Transfiguration in New York with his mother and younger sister Alice in attendance (the ceremony had first been considered for June 20th at Christ’s Church in Rye but Peter wanted to graduate with his class). There are numerous records of his preaching in Rye after this at Christ’s Church when he was home visiting his parents and siblings. He accepted an “official call” extended to him on January 23rd, 1869 to be the Rector of Christ Church parish in Warwick following his ordination, and served as a lay reader on Sundays before that time.
On December 17, 1869 he was ordained a Presbyter at the Chapel of the Holy Saviour, NY (25th Street and Madison) by Bishop Horatio Potter and on April 24, 1870 he first officiated at St. Thomas’s, Vernon while also being Rector at Christ’s Church, Warwick.
He left Warwick in 1872 and through 1874, he was Rector of Grace Church in Fair Haven, Connecticut. Sadly on October 11, 1875 he died, far too young at 34, of a brain hemorrhage. His wife Julia moved back to Rye with their 4 young children to live with Peter’s family. Source:JayHeritageCenter

1. Seventh Generation Pierre JAY+ Birth 4 May 1870 in Warwick, Orange, New York, Death 24 Nov 1949 in New York, New York, married Louisa Channing BARLOW+ Birth 27 Jul 1873 in Lenox, Massachusetts, Death 10 Sep 1965 in New York City, New York, They were both buried in the Jay Cemetery. They had five children.

1. Eighth Generation. Ellen JAY+ Birth 23 Aug 1898 in Lenox, Mass. Death 2 Jun 1995 in New York, married Lloyd Kirkham GARRISON+ Birth 19 Nov 1897 in New York City, Death 2 Oct 1991 in New York City, They were both buried in the Jay Cemetery,. They had three children.

Lloyd Kirkham Garrison (November 19, 1897 – October 2, 1991) was an American lawyer. He was Dean of the University of Wisconsin Law School, but also served as chairman of the “first” National Labor Relations Board, chairman of the National War Labor Board, and chair of the New York City Board of Education. He was active in a number of social causes, was a highly successful attorney on Wall Street, and for a short time was a special assistant to the United States Attorney General.
Garrison was born on November 19, 1897, in New York City to Lloyd McKim and Alice (Kirkham) Garrison.[1] His great-grandfather was William Lloyd Garrison, the famous American abolitionist, and his grandfather was Wendell Phillips Garrison, who once was literary editor of The Nation (a left-wing magazine of politics and opinion).[1] His father died of typhoid when Garrison was a child, and he was largely raised by his grandfather, Wendell.[2] His grandfather, who knew many Civil War-era abolitionists (Frederick Douglass was a frequent guest in the Garrison home in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and Wendell Garrison knew him personally), regaled young Lloyd with many stories about the great struggles for civil rights and liberties of the 19th century.[2] He graduated from St. Paul’s School, a college-preparatory boarding school in New Hampshire.[1] He attended Harvard University, but quit school in 1917 to enlist in the United States Navy after the U.S. entered World War I.[3] He returned to Harvard in 1919, and in 1922 he graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard and a law degree from Harvard Law School.[3] He married Ellen Jay, a Boston socialite and direct descendant of Founding Father and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Jay, on June 22, 1921.[4][5] The couple had three children: Clarinda, Ellen, and Lloyd.[4]
Garrison remained active in his law firm until the end of his life. He died at his home in Manhattan in New York City of a heart failure on October 2, 1991.[6] He was survived by his wife and three children.[6]

Ellen Jay Garrison, the widow of the Manhattan attorney Lloyd K. Garrison and a featured performer in the Woody Allen film “Zelig” at the age of 83, died on Friday at her home in Manhattan. She was 96. Mrs. Garrison was born in Boston and attended the Brearley School. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1920. In the 1950’s she served as president of Women United for the United Nations. A direct descendant of John Jay, she was a longtime trustee of the John Jay Homestead in Bedford, N.Y. Her husband was a New York lawyer and civil rights advocate who served on numerous Federal agencies and commissions in the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations and was president of the New York City Board of Education in the mid-1960’s. He died in 1991. Mrs. Garrison, who had never acted, caught the attention of the critics with her performance as Dr. Eudora Fletcher, the eccentric psychiatrist whose younger self was played by Mia Farrow. During the film, she delivers a series of monologues ruminating on her tempestuous relationship with Zelig. She was recommended for the role by a friend who knew the film’s casting director.

1. Ninth Generation Clarinda GARRISON Birth 1923 in New York married Robert Weeks FERGUSON Jr Birth 23 Feb 1921 Death 1 Nov 1993 in Duval, Florida, and Andre BOUCHARD Birth 10 Oct 1919 in New Hampshire Death 18 Feb 1994 in Islip Terrace, Suffolk, New York,
2. Ninth Generation Ellen Shaw GARRISON Birth 1926 in New York married Hamilton Fish KEAN Birth 1920 in New York. This marriage brought together the Jay Livingston and Livingston Fish branches. Hamilton Fish Kean’s grandfather was Sen. Hamilton Fish KEAN who was a US senator from New Jersey. His great grand aunt Julia Ursin KEAN married Sen HAMILTON STUYVESANT FISH . Two generations back John KEAN married Susan Livingston whose fathers brother was William Livingston, the father of Sarah Livingston Jay.

2. Eighth Generation Anna Maricka JAY+Birth 19 Jun 1900 in Staten Island, New York City, Death Aug 1982 in Manhattan, New York City, married Alexander Duer HARVEY. Birth 05 SEP 1889 in Hoboken, Hudson County, New Jersey, Death 9 JAN 1968 in Manhattan, New York City, They had two children. They were both active with the management of the Cemetery and were buried there.

Alexander Duer Harvey was the great-grandson of John Van Buren, second son of President Martin Van Buren. John Van Buren (1810-1866), a lawyer and politician, was an active participant in the campaign for the exclusion of slavery from the territories. Widely known as an eloquent speaker, he earned high regard as a lawyer, appearing in the Edwin Forrest and other important court cases. John Van Buren died at sea in 1866 on a voyage from Liverpool to New York. Martin Van Buren, an ardent Jeffersonian and 8th president of the United States, played a pivotal role in creating the Democratic Party.

1. Ninth Generation Phoebe Duer HARVEY Birth 27 DEC 1932 in Norwalk, Connecticut, Death in Yorktown Heights, New York, married Bertrand Faugeres BELL Birth 04 Aug 1906 in New York, Death May 1977 in New York, They had three children. Married Robert FRACKMAR Birth 1930 in New York, Death in Yorktown Heights, They had one child.

2 . Ninth Generation. Dereke Jay HARVEYBirth 03 Aug 1929 in Connecticut, Death 27 Jun 1999 in Brandon, Rutland, Vermont, Unmarried.
HARVEY-Dereke Died on June 27, 1999 in Brandon, Vermont in her 70th year. Daughter of the late Nancy Jay Harvey and the late Alexander Duer Harvey. Dear sister of Phoebe Harvey Frackman of Greenwich, CT. Devoted aunt of Daphne Jay Bell, Alexandra Bell Witten, Frederick T. Bell and David A. Frackman. A memorial service will be announced at a later date.

5. Eighth Generation, Louise JAY+ Birth abt 1909 in Massachusetts Death 23 Oct 1980 in Fort Lauderdale, Broward, Florida, married Imre deVEGH Birth abt 1906 in Budapest, Hungary Death abt 1962. They had two children. She married in 1962 Lawrence Webster FOX+ Jr Birth 5 Jan 1895 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Death 2 Nov 1969 in Coronado, San Diego, California, She is buried with her second husband in the Jay Cemetery.

Ninth Generation. Children of Louise JAY+ and Imre deVEGH
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1. Ninth Generation Pierre DeVegh Birth 1934 in New York City Living Married ELLEN

2. Seventh Generation Mary Rutherfurd JAY+* Birth 16 Aug 1872 in Fair Haven, Nwe Haven. Connecticut, Death 4 Oct 1953 in Wilton, Fairfield, Connecticut, Unmarried. She was buried in the Jay Cemetery.
Mary Rutherfurd JAY was born 16 Aug 1872 in Fair Haven, Nwe Haven. Connecticut, United States as the second child of Rev Peter Augustus JAY and Julia Post. She had three siblings, namely: Pierre, Laura Prime, and John. She died 04 Oct 1953 in Wilton, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States.
She lived in Rye, Westchester, She studied drawing, painting and design in Europe before deciding to became a “garden architect.” Bef. 1908. She was employed as a Pioneering female landscape architect (she referred to herself as a “garden architect”). She studied architecture at MIT and Harvard’s Bussey Institute in Forest Hills, MA. Aft. 1908. She lived in Manhattan Author: 1940 in Wrote biography of the JAY family (Also wrote several books on architectural gardening) Jay Cemetery: 1940 (Enlarged the size of the cemetery) President Jay Cemetery: 1940 (WrotE book Jay Cemetery and genealogy chart)

3. Seventh Generation Laura Prime JAY+ Birth 30 Aug 1874 in Rye, Westchester, New York, Death 21 Jun 1938 in New Canaan, Fairfield, Connecticut, married Frederick DeWitt WELLS Birth 25 Mar 1874 in Brooklyn, New York City, Death 19 Dec 1929 in New York City, New York, They had three children.
The Man in Court. By Frederick Dewitt Wells. G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
This book -will be read with interest by the public at large, for whom it is evidently intended, but it is also not without value to the practising lawyer. It presents the subject from a new point of view. One who approaches the courts of law from the angle of the lawyer does not receive the same impression- as the litigant, the juror, the witness, or the judge. Any criticism of legal procedure which tends to widen the horizon of the parties and the public generally is a public benefit.
Many of his objections to the present system are not properly directed against the courts or their procedure, but against the policy of statutes enacted by the legislature, as, for instance, in bis chapter on the night courts and the treatment of the social evil. Of course, the courts have no discretion in these cases. The judge must enforce the law as it is.
When he turns to the civil courts he seems to find an “unfitness between the courts and modern conditions.” In the last chapter he outlines the possibility of “Juridical Experts” to decide controversies; the courts, the judges, aid the lawyers apparently all having been abolished. We can not gather whether he regards this abolition of judges and juries and lawyers with satisfaction and approval; but to those who have made some study of the history of jurisprudence it would seem that the new system would be rather a change of name than of substance.
Judge Wells seems also to lay the blame on lawyers as a class for the defects of the present system—the delay occasioned by the calendar practise, the rules of evidence excluding irrelevant and immaterial testimony, the use of technicalities which confuse the merits, cross-examination which he considers useless, the forms of pleading and their use to keep out facts the jury would like to know.
Some of these defects are the results of laws binding on the judge, which can -be changed, if desired; but for most of them the judge and the litigant (the business man whose case is to be tried) are at least equally responsible. The postponements and delays are largely caused by the fact that the business man finds it inconvenient or a cause of financial loss to attend court at the
particular moment the case is called for trial, and usually when the lawyer seeks delay he does so at the behest of his client.
Judge Wells makes no allusion to \ the great and substantial reforms in legal procedure which have been made in recent years, notably the reform of the calendar practise of his own court, the result of which has been an immense saving of time to all concerned; and this is only one of the numerous reforms.
The real trouble is that the courts are dealing with the most complex of all subjects^—human nature—and the rights and duties of men in a highly developed civilization. The courts are -.afety-valve through which the community blows off its surplus steam. The mere fact that they exist, that they are there ready to redress a wrong, is the greatest bulwark of liberty and public order.

1. Eighth Generation Mary Valette WELLS+ Birth 1905 in New York Death Jun 30, 1961 in Baltimore, Md. Unmarried. Buried in the Jay Cemetery
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2. Eighth Generation. Frederic Jay WELLS+ Birth 3 Feb 1901 in New York City, New York Death 17 Feb 1972 in Lawrence Memorial Hosp., New London, Connecticut,
Married Dorothy AULT Birth 11 December 1905 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Death 1 January 1955 in Nova Scotia, Canada They had three children. Divorce. Also married Ilona Agnes (Helen) TERINS Birth 17 August 1913 in New York City, New York, Death 29 Jun 2004 in Old Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, He was buried in the new section of the Jay Cemetery.

Naval Officer. Graduate from Annapolis. Commander of a Minesweeper during WW II YMS “Large Wooden Minesweepers” or “Motor Minesweepers” ordered April 1941, under 1940 program, about 270 tons, 136 ft long, 1-3″ ,2-20mm, 2- depth charge throwers, 2 GM diesels, 15 kts, complement about 50. classified BYMS after? WW2. Were classified AMS prior 1955. Three kinds for recognition: two little funnels, one fat funnel ( including AMS 11-) and no funnel. Many built and many transferred to other navies, some still around in civilian use as small coasters etc. Feb 1955 reclassified “Minesweepers, Coastal (old)” MSC(O)

IIONA A. “Helen” WELLS, 90, of Otter Cove, Old Saybrook, wife of the late Frederic Wells, died Tuesday, (June 29, 2004) at Gladeview Health Care Center in Old Saybrook. Born in New York, NY, on August 17, 1913, she was the daughter of the late Paul and Mary Terins. Mrs. Wells was a member of Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Essex and the Essex Garden Club. She was artistic and painted. She enjoyed gardening, traveling and playing bridge. She supported the Acton Library (Old Saybrook), John Jay Heritage Center (Rye, NY), and US State Department Arts & Sculpture collections. She is survived by her daughter, Ilona Susan Sambasivan and her husband Sundaramurthy Sambasivan of New York, NY; two step sons, F. Hume Wells and John Jay Wells and their wives; 12 step grandchildren and numerous great grandchildren. She was predeceased by two brothers, a stepson, Peter J. Wells and his wife. .

Generation. Children of Frederic Jay WELLS and Dorothy AULT
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1. Ninth Generation Frederic Hume WELLS Birth 29 November 1926 in New York City, New York. Death 09/28/2008 Lived in Nova Scotia. Married with children.

3. Ninth Generation. Peter Augustus Jay WELLS Birth 30 May 1935 in New York Death 17 February 1967 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Married Mary Ann FINNEY Birth 5 November 1933 in Baltimore, Maryland, Death 18 March 1986 in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. They had SEVEN children. He died at age 31. All the children live in Canada.
I just stumbled across this thread; I am excited as this is a family branch that we know little about. My grandmother Ault (Dorothy) died Jan. 1, 1955, before I was born (also predeceasing all seven of my other siblings). To correct Michelle’s post, Dorothy married my grandfather, Frederic Jay Wells on Oct. 3, 1925 in Ontario and they went on to have three sons before divorcing: Frederic Hume (1926-2008), John Jay (1926- ) and my father, Peter Augustus Jay (1935-1967). Dorothy Ault Wells died Jan. 1, 1955. The Wells family resided in the USA (NY, MI and CT), where my grandfather was a naval officer. Each of these sons had families of their own and have expanded another two generations on top of that! Interestingly, all three Wells/Ault sons settled permanently in Canada (ours & Hume’s family in Nova Scotia, while John still resides in Alberta). .

3. Eighth Generation. Oliver Dimock WELLS+ Birth 6 Apr 1902 in New York City, New York, Death 7 Nov 1974 in New York City, New York, married Anne Lawrence WISNER. He was buried in the Jay Cemetery. They had three children.

Miss Wisner, who attended the Brearley School in Manhattan and Miss Porter’s School to Farming- ton, Conn., made her debut the season of 1938-39 at a tea-dance at the St. Regis Roof. She attended the Junior Assemblies and is a member of the New York Junior League. She is the granddaughter of Mrs; John Burling Lawrence and a direct descendant of Henry Wisner, who was a member of both the first and second Continental Congresses. •Mr. Wells attended Groton School and Cambridge in England. He is associated with the firm of Good- body & Co. He is a direct descendant of John Jay, first Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court.

4. Seventh Generation. John JAY+ Birth 19 Nov 1875 in Rye, Westchester, New York, Death 28 Jul 1928 in Hyannis, Barnstable, Massachusetts, married Louise Tormey KILCLINE Birth 11 Oct 1898 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, Death 20 Jun 1967 in Fairfield, Connecticut, He worked as a stock broker. He was active as trustee of the Jay Cemetery. They are both buried there. No children.

4. Sixth Generation. John Clarkson JAY+ II MD Birth 20 Oct 1844 in Rye, Westchester, New York. Death 7 Nov 1923 in New York City, New York, married Harriette Arnold VINTON+ Birth 3 Oct 1849 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, Death 8 May 1914 in Worcester, Massachusetts, He was a trustee of the Jay Cemetery. They had three children. Both were buried in the Jay Cemetery.

Educated at Lewis J. Dudley’s School, Northampton, MA; Charlier Institute, New York City; Grammar School of Columbia College, New York City; Columbia College (now University), New York City. During the Civil War served as a Pvt., Co. F., 71st Regt., New York State Militia (National Guard). Enlisted on 27 May and mustered out on 2 Sep 1862. Graduation 1863 — Age: 19 M.D., Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons.1864 -1865 — Age: 20 Served as acting Asst. Surgeon, US Army, in Armory Square Hosp., Washington, DC, and in Sedgwick General Hosp., Greenville, LA.
1865 -1867 — Age: 21 Employed in the hospital on Randall’s Isl. and in Marion Street Lying-in-Asylum. 1867 -1869 — Age: 23 Spent two years studying medicine at the universities of Prague and Vienna.
1869 -1898 —Returned to the New York and entered private practice. Also served as attending physician to NY Hosp., Outpatient Dept.; the NY Dispensary; and the Northwestern Dispensary. Specialist in diseases of children. Marriage to Harriette Arnold VINTON+ 1872 12 Dec — Age: 28
Summer Residence. 1890 to 1904 — Rye, Westchester, New York Spent summers in the house built by his grandfather. Sale of PAJ House in Rye 1905 Family decision of the children of JCJ I to sell the house. House sold to VanOrden Trustee, The JAY Cemetery 1906 — Age: 62 Original trustee of the incorporation set up after the sale of the house. Other two trustees were Banyaer Clarkson and John Jay. He acted as treasurer. Death 1923 7 Nov — Age: 79 Burial The Jay Cemetery, Rye Plot G3
He was a supporter of Abolition, though he did not belong to the “radical” Garrisonian group of Abolitionists.
He was one of the founders of the New York Free Dispensary for Children.
Dr. John Clarkson Jay married, at New York City, December 12, 1872, Harriette Arnold Vinton. She was born at Brooklyn, New York, October 3, 1849, and was the daughter of Major-General David Hammond Vinton and his wife, Eliza Arethusa (Arnold) Vinton. Children: 1. Maria Arnold, born at New York City, September 18, 1873, died there, January 2, 1877. 2. Edith Van Cortlandt, born at New York City, June 2, 1875. 3. John Clarkson,

1. Seventh Generation. Maria Arnold JAY+ Birth 18 Sep 1873 in New York City,
Death 2 Jan 1878 in New York City at age 5. Buried in the Jay Cemetery.
“Maria Arnold Jay, daughter of John C. Jay Jr. born in New York Sept. 18, 1873. Baptized in Trinity Chapel by Rev. Peter A. Jay. ”

2. Seventh Generation. Edith Van Cortland JAY+ Birth 2 Jun 1875 in New York City, New York, Death 13 Apr 1947 married Benjamin Haywood ADAMS+ Birth 22 Oct 1868 in Pottsville, Schuykill, Pennsylvania Death 21 Jul 1931 . Both were buried in the Jay Cemetery.
Birth 1875, 2 Jun New York City, New York, Her family’s primary residence was in New York. Also Known As Edie Jay. Her family had spent their summer on the Gladwyn Estate, known simply as Gladwyn, since about 1890. Edith was residing there in 1927. Marriage to Benjamin Haywood Adams+ 1920 16 Oct — Age: 45 New York City, 1930 — Age: 55
Trustee, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Death 1947 13 Apr — Age: 71. Burial The Jay Cemetery, Rye Plot G6

3. Seventh Generation. John Clarkson JAY+* III Birth 20 Jan 1880 in New York Death 22 Jan 1941 in New York, married Marguerite Montgomery SOLELIAC Birth 21 Jul 1877 in Paterson, Passaic, New Jersey, Death 28 Jun 1937 in New York,
They were both buried in the Jay Cemetery. They had four children.
He was a Trustee of the JAY Cemetery 1924 -1940 with Delancy Kane Jay and Pierre Jay. (second group of trustees)

Eighth Generation. Children of John Clarkson JAY+* III and Marguerite Montgomery SOLELIAC. AJ-PJ-JJ-PAJ-JCJ-JCJII-JCJIII-

1. Eighth Generation, Sarah Livingston JAY+ Birth 13 Mar 1904 in New York Death 4 April 1997 in Madison, New Haven, Connecticut married Arthur Middleton Reeves HUGHES+ Birth 1904 in Pennsylvania Death 1980 . Both buried in the Jay cemetery. They had four children.

Sarah Livingston Jay Hughes, 93, of Madison, widow of Arthur M. R. Hughes, died Friday (April 4, 1997). The great, great, great-granddaughter of John Jay, first chief justice of the Supreme Court was born in New York City to John Clarkson and Marguerite Soleliac Jay. In 1926, she married Arthur Middleton Reeves Hughes, the son of the rector of Trinity Church in Newport, RI. A resident of New Canaan for many years while her husband commuted to the Marine Midland Trust Company in New York City, she appeared on the stage of the Blue Hill Troop singing Gilbert and Sullivan. In 1950, when Arthur became president of the Marine Midland Bank, she moved to Rochester, NY. She was active in the Landmark Society, National Society of Colonial Dames, the Garden Club of Rochester and many other service activities. In 1967, she and Arthur retired to Essex, where she maintained a gorgeous garden. For the past year and a half, she has been a resident of the Watrous Nursing Center, Madison. She is survived by her four children, Arthur Hughes of Arlington, VA, Sally Carr of Guilford, Paul Hughes of Bloomfield and Emily Page of Medford, MA, 12 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.

Jay House. IT was not supposed to be a family reunion, but on Monday night seven descendents of John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the United States, rallied at Rye City Hall. ”It was the crisis of the old Jay House that brought us all together,” said Dr. John Dubois, a great-great-great-grandson of the Chief Justice. Dr. Dubois had to come only from Briarcliff Manor, but one of his cousins, many times removed, Sarah Jay Hughes, came from Old Lyme, Conn.; Mrs. Hughes’s daughter, Sarah Hughes Carr, came in from Guilford, Conn., and her son, Paul Montgomery Hughes, from Bloomfield, Conn. Their cousin Ada Hastings arrived from West Hartford and Pierre Jay DeVegh traveled from Manhattan. All are descendants of John Jay’s son Peter. Guy Paschal, a descendant of John Jay’s other son, William, traveled from nearby Purchase. The house, which was built in 1838, is being threatened with demolition. It was erected on the site of John Jay’s boyhood home, which had been built in 1740 by the Chief Justice’s father. The property was owned by the Jay family until 1904, and the family cemetery is there. The property was bought by Edgar Palmer and owned by him and his daughter, Zilph Palmer Devereux, until 1967, when it was given to the Methodist Church, which sold it to a developer, Diane Millstein, in 1983. Mrs. Millstein had suggested several ways of developing the property, including an office complex or town houses, some involving use of the old mansion. Meanwhile, the mansion has been deteriorating, and last year Mrs. Millstein asked the Rye Board of Architectural Review for permission to tear it down. The request was rejected and on Monday night she appealed that decision to the City Council, saying she could not develop the property economically if she had to maintain the century-and-a-half old building. Relatives, all either great-great-great grandchildren or great-great-great-great grandchildren who knew each other but not very well, had gathered three weeks before the meeting to talk about saving the house. Mrs. Hughes, the matriarch of the group, said she had visited the house many times, ”and we all have possessions that came from it.” But the family generally has paid more attention to the John Jay homestead in Bedford, now a restoration open to visitors, which was built by John Jay himself and was his retirement home, she said. Mr. DeVegh said the family members have agreed to form a coalition with the other groups interested in the house – the Friends of the Marshlands, the Westchester Preservation League and the Rye Landmarks Commission – and try to restore it and find a nonprofit use for it. The City Council did not rule Monday on the developer’s request, and the Jay descendants said they were hopeful that the decision would be in their favor. ”I would cry bitterly if anything happened to it,” Mrs. Hughes said, ”but I don’t think it will.”

1. Ninth Generation. Arthur Middleton HUGHES, Jr. Birth 9 Mar 1928 in Pennsylvania married Helena ERRAZURUZ Birth abt 1930. married Nancy WEDGE Birth abt1930.
Wrote several text books and taught data based marketing principles
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2. Ninth Generation. Sarah Jay HUGHES Birth 1930 in New York married Richard Stewart CARR Jr. Birth 1927. She wrote several books, one on the Jay Family.

2. Eighth Generation Marguerite Montgomery JAY Birth 5 May 1907 in New York, Death 26 Dec 1934 in New York, New York, married Rev. William Dudley Foulke HUGHES. 28 Apr 1898 in Richmond, Indiana Death 14 Jan 1964 in Newport, Rhode Island. They had three children.

The Rev. William Dudley Foulke Hughes, rector of St. Columba’s Protestant Episcopal Church in Middletown, died today in Newport Hospital. His age was 65. Mr. Hughes was born in Richmond, Ind. As an ambulance driver with the French Army in World War I, he won the Croix de Guerre for evacuating wounded men under heavy shell fire at the Battle of Verdun.
He received A.B. degrees from Princeton University in 1919 and from Oxford University in 1922, a B. Litt. from Oxford in 1923 and an A.M. there in 1926. Mr. Hughes was ordained a deacon of his church in 1923 and a priest the next year. Subsequently he was a master at the Salisbury (Conn.) School, precentor (priest in charge of the music) at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York and headmaster of its choir school, rector of Grace Church, Hastings-on-Hudson, N. Y., and dean of St. Luke’s Cathedral, Portland, Me. He had been rector of S. Columba’s since 1956.
Mr. Hughes first wife, the former Miss Marguerite Montgomery Jay, a descendant of John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States, died in 1934. In 1941 he married Mrs. Frances Lindon Smith Otis, widow of Raymond Otis. Surviving besides his widow are two sons by his first marriage, John J. and Dudley Hughes; a daughter by his first marriage, Mrs. Jane Gignoux; a daughter by his second, Miss Linden Hughes; three brothers and six grandchildren.

Ninth Generation. Children of Marguerite Montgomery JAY and Rev.
William Dudley Foulke HUGHES.

1. Ninth Generation. Rev John Jay HUGHES. Birth 15 May 1929 in New York Death 6 July 2003 . Unmarried. Converted from an Anglican priest to a Catholic priest.
John Jay Hughes is a retired priest of the St. Louis archdiocese and a Church historian.
Though I am occasionally asked why I am a priest, most often the question is: “Why did you become a Catholic?” Forty-seven years after being received into the Catholic Church, I am still asked that, most often by lifelong Catholics. I can see the eager hope in their eyes. They are looking for confirmation from a one-time outsider that “Catholic is best.” How difficult it is to disappoint them.
For the truth is that there was little in the pre–Vatican II Church that was attractive to me, an Anglican for 32 years, the last six of them a happy priest in the American Episcopal Church.
Nor was I ever disillusioned with Anglicanism. Had that been the case, my decision about the Catholic Church at Easter 1960 would have been far easier. >From the time I was old enough to think about such things, I realized that Anglicanism was a theological house of cards. But it was my house. It was where the Lord had put me. Moreover, at ordination I had made promises of obedience and fidelity no less solemn than those made by Catholic priests. Could it be right to break those promises? The least that could be said was that I must not leave the place the Lord had assigned me without truly compelling reasons.
Anglicanism took me, as it had taken my father and grandfather before me, from the font to the altar. I loved it. I remain grateful to it. I am deeply saddened by its present disarray. Was Newman right in his view that, at bottom, Anglicanism is simply another version of Protestantism?
Devout and holy men and women in the Anglican Communion taught me almost all the Catholic truth I know, even today. I considered it then, and consider it today, aesthetically the most beautiful form of Christianity in the West—though I realized long ago that appreciation of its beauty requires a level of culture that limits its appeal. It was one of my Anglican seminary professors, the Englishman J. V. Langmead Casserly (whose lectures were second in brilliance only to those of Ratzinger a dozen years later), who pointed out that, unlike Protestantism and Catholicism, Anglicanism has no folk version.
Added to the theological perplexities were personal difficulties: dislike of the triumphalist Church of Pius XII, and the desire not to wound my beloved priest-father, widowed by the death of my mother when I was only six years old. His life and priestly ministry had kindled my desire to follow in his footsteps. Philo- and not anti-Catholic, on the subject of Anglican priests who “perverted to Rome” (his term), he was unyielding. Were I to take this step, he told me, I would no longer be welcome in the family home. In the event, I never saw him again. We shall meet again in heaven, where mutual hurt will be replaced by unending joy
Leaving the Episcopal Church was the hardest thing I have ever done. Only years later was I able to affirm, as I now do without hesitation, that entering the Catholic Church is the best thing I have ever done.

2. Ninth Generation. Jane HUGHES Birth abt 1931 in New York married Regis GIGNOUX. Birth abt 1930. Death 21 Jan 2005 in Bedford, Westchester, New York,
They were Divorced in 1979

3. Ninth Generation. Dudley HUGHES Birth abt 1933 in New York

3. Eighth Generation. Alice JAY+ Birth 5 Nov 1908 in Pelham, Westchester, New York,
Death 13 Mar 1951 in Mount Kisco, New York, married V. Wilshire HARCOURT. Birth 21 May 1905 in Ohio Death 18 Nov 1981 in Collier, Florida, Marriage ended in divorce. Married Gerald Houghton Taber Birth 31 May 1905 in Paris, France Death 2 Jul 1982 in Palm Beach, Florida. She had three children with her first marriage.

1. NInth Generation Ada HARCOURT. Birth 22 Oct 1932 in Ohio Living married George Cassidy HASTINGS Birth 1928 in Vermont Death married George B Raymond At age 61. Birth abt 1934. Living.
She Inherited from her mother a portrait of Alice JAY, her great aunt, by Daniel Huntington. This was donated to the Jay Heritage Center in 2012.

4. Eighth Generation John Clarkson JAY+* IV Birth abt 1916 in New York Death Dec 7, 2000 in San Diego, California married Lois GOODNOV Birth 13 Sep 1916 Death 25 Aug 1997 in Williamstown, Berkshire, Massachusetts. They were divorced. He married Mary M O’HARE Birth abt 1928 Living. He had two children with his first wife. He was buried in the Jay Cemetery.
John Jay, the inventor of the ski film in its modern form, has been sharing his unique humor and style in travel-adventure ski films, books, and magazine articles for over sixty years. Jay is recognized world-wide as a legendary ski-film maker who inspired many to try and to enjoy the passion of skiing. Jay began his ski adoration in the winters of 1933 and 1934 while studying at St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire. In 1935, then a freshman at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, Jay spent weekends at the first U.S. rope tow at Woodstock, Vermont. Jay’s first ski film began here with the family camera and some entertaining shots of his winter skiing adventures. Jay projected his first footage for friends in his family home, narrating live over the console Victrola. During his undergraduate winters, Jay filmed numerous local events to include the Williams Winter Carnival, the Dartmouth Winter Carnival, the second Inferno Race down the Headwall of Tuckerman’s Ravine, and the Madison Square Garden’s Winter Sports Show. Time, Inc. hired Jay to write commentary for the prestigious March of Time. But Jay soon grew tired of the job that left him little time for skiing, so he applied and won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford College in England. With nine months to spare before he was to arrive to Oxford, Jay was asked to produce a film on the Canadian Rocky Mountain powder skiing. The result was Skis over Skoki, the first American film of its kind capturing skiers gliding through powdered wilderness Jay then set out to immortalize South America’s only ski resort, Farallones, located up the Andes outside of Santiago. By the time of his return to the States, World War II was on and the Oxford College Rhodes scholarship was postponed. So he put together his epic, Ski the Americas, North and South. The film packed in over 50,000 viewers during its tour and enlightened many to the thrills of traveling the world to ski. In January, 1942, Jay received his orders to report to 1st Battalion, 87th Regiment at Fort Lewis as the Second Lieutenant to the ski troops. Jay led an eight-man detachment of the 1st Battalion on the first winter ascent of Mount Rainier and won a commendation for his troops’ success. That year, now Captain Jay married Lois Goodnow, published Day in the Life of a Ski Trooper in the Boston Globe, and began what became known as the 10th Mountain Division. Jay soon began putting together his second film, Ski Patrol, finishing it in the fall of 1943. The film drew 75,000 viewers and helped produce a wealth of recruits. As the war came to an end in 1945, Jay with Lois produced the postwar lecture film Hickory Holiday. Memorably, at the end of an 18,000 mile tour, the film was shown to 3,800 applauding members of the National Geographic Society in Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. Jay went on to make a film a year for an exciting 25 years. Equally successful was Jay’s 1947 guide book and travel epic, Skiing the Americas, North and South. Over 20,000 copies of the book have been sold. Holiday on Skis was completed by Jay in 1956, and Los Angeles film critics applauded the witty results. Jay’s 1958 Ski to Adventure showed Japanese skiers on the slopes colliding and bumbling into each other as Jay commentated over the scene as if it where the play by play of a football game. His coverage of the 1960 Olympics at Squaw Valley required the help of San Francisco film maker Marvin Becker and a 24-man crew. The much praised result was a one hour long jam-packed action sequence called Olympic Holiday. Jay’s popularity soared as he appeared in hundreds of cities presenting to millions of enthralled viewers. ABC network television picked up Jay’s Olympic footage for presentation during the previews to the Innsbruck Games. Jay went on to produce 1965’s Persian Powder, 1966’s An Evening with John Jay, sold two of his past films to Westinghouse’s Four Winds to Adventure, and pushed his second book Ski Down the Years. Ski Down the Years broke records, selling 40,000 copies, more than any other ski book. In 1968 Head for the Hills presented footage of Japan, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and Mauna Kea, Hawaii. In 1970, Jay’s World of Skiing captured shots of French Olympian Guy Perillat skiing at La Clusaz. Jay had the honor to receive the Lifetime “Jerry,” the Crested Butte International Ski Film Festival Ski Film Maker Legend Award, in January of 1996. In 1997 Jay received his greatest honor, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Ski History Association. Recognizing him for his outstanding record at preserving the history of skiing, the association introduced Jay as a “towering figure in the history of skiing who effectively communicates, records, and popularizes his love of the skiing life to countless thousands with his ski films.” Since 1939 Jay shared his talent and humor as a historian, capturing so cleverly the golden years of American alpine skiing. We are fortunate to have had such an adventurer as John Jay in our midst and such a picturesque record of skiing past. John, born December 11, 1915, died December 7, 2000 just four days from celebrating his 85th birthday.

Ninth Generation. Children of John Clarkson JAY+* IV and Lois GOODNOV. AJ-PJ-JJ-PAJ-JCJ-JCJII-JCJIII-JCJIV-

1. Ninth Generation. John Clarkson JAY,IV Birth 1944 in Massachusettes Living
Married to

5. Sixth Generation Alice JAY+ Birth 1846 in New York, Death 19 Jun 1921 . Unmarried. She was buried in the Jay Cemetery.
Suzanne Clarey in Jay Heritage News Letter
The young subject of the painting, Alice Jay, along with her parents and siblings, lived both in New York and at the Rye estate during the mid and late 19th century. Windows into Alice’s life and times, particularly during the Civil War, are well documented in family letters and diaries. Alice’s father, Dr. John Clarkson Jay, was John Jay’s grandson and a vocal opponent of slavery like his grandfather and father before him. Through the local Episcopal church where he served on the vestry, he was instrumental in spearheading efforts in Rye to recruit volunteers for the Union efforts during the Civil War, a campaign which drew enlistments from Alice’s two older brothers, Peter, who became Captain of a local militia, and John, who served as an assistant surgeon. Alice’s sister kept a diary in which she wrote proudly in 1862, “Rye is called the banner town of the county for she has raised more men by volunteering than any of the other towns.” The artist of the painting, New Yorker Daniel Huntington (1816 – 1906), trained with Jay family friends and esteemed colleagues like John Trumbull (who accompanied Jay as his secretary to Europe during treaty negotiations but also achieved renown as a painter, most notably for his grand scale Declaration of Independence now at the Capitol Rotunda) and Samuel F. B. Morse (whose successful career as an artist preceded his renown as an inventor and earned him the nickname of “America’s Da Vinci.”) Under the tutelage of men like these, Huntington rose to prominence both during and after the Civil War. He was a member of the National Academy of Design for most of his life and acted as its President for 22 years; he was also Vice-President of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for 33 years and helped that institution expand and grow in stature.

6. Sixth Generation. Sarah JAY+ Birth 1848 in New York, United States Death 1883
Died at age 34. She was Unmarried.

FOURTH GENERATION

2. Fourth Generation MARY RUTHERFORD JAY+and FREDERICK PRIME

2. MARY RUTHERFORD JAY+ Birth 16 Apr 1810 in New York, Death 9 Sep 1835 in New York, married Frederick PRIME Birth 30 Oct 1807 in New York Death 13 Jul 1887 in New York. She was buried in the Jay Cemetery. They had three children. Her husbands sister Laura Prime married her brother John Clarkson Jay
She was the first daughter and a favorite of her mother.
She died in childbirth during the birth of her third daughter Helen Jay at age 35
She was buried in The Jay Cemetery, Rye Plot L8: She has a very Tall monument. Her death was very tragic . It affected her mother greatly and may have been a factor in her mothers declining health.
The Height of monuments in the Cemetery was limited after her burial.

DESCENDANTS OF MARY RUTHERFORD JAY AND FREDERICK PRIME

1. Fifth Generation. Mary Rutherford PRIME+ Birth 24 Aug 1830 in New York, Death 12 Jun 1910 in New York, Unmarried. Buried in the Jay Cemetery.
She spent time at Hull’s Cove, Bar Hrbour, Maine.
In 1865 the old meeting-house at Hull’s Cove, the first one built in Eden, was pulled down. Two years before, Captain Jonathan Ignatius Stevens, born at Bar Harbor in 1812 but brought up in Hull’s Cove, had given the village a schoolhouse with the provision that it could be used for religious services, and also that whenever a minister, especially one of the Episcopal order, could be obtained, he should have the use of the house. It was at his request that Bishop Neely made his first visit to the island to preach in this schoolhouse. Bad weather delayed the bishop, and at the time of his visit Captain Stevens had been called unexpectedly to Portland, where the bishop on his return found him taken suddenly with a fatal illness. Before his death, he persuaded the bishop to promise that whenever he could, he would send a clergyman to hold services at Hull’s Cove; and it was in fulfillment of this pledge that Mr. Leffingwell, through all the years of his ministry at Bar Harbor, conducted services regularly at Hull’s Cove also. To accommodate a growing work, the present beautiful ” Church of Our Father” was built in 1891, the gift of Miss Mary Rutherford Prime of New York and her cousin, Miss Cornelia Prime of Huntington, N. Y., in memory of their fathers, two brothers, Rufus and Frederic Prime. The building is of native granite, rural gothic in style, with Norman porch, open belfry, and a small inclosed baptistry. A beautiful gothic well stands by the path leading in from the highway
At the time of her death she willed money to this church as well as money to the Church of the Heavenly Rest in NY.

3. Fifth Generation. Helen Jay PRIME+ Birth 22 Aug 1835 in New York, Death 31 Jan 1920 in Rhinebeck, Dutchess, New York, married Francis Thomas GARRETSON+ Birth 26 May 1826 in Rheinbeck, Dutchess, New York Death 1918 in Rhinebeck, Dutchess, New York, They had three children. Both were buried in the Jay Cemetery.

2. Sixth Generation. Elizabeth Waters GARRETSON Birth 17 Mar 1859 in New York. Death 17 May 1934 in New York, Married Samuel Havland RUSSELL Birth 19 May 1853 in New York, New York.
They had three children.

1. Seventh Generation. Frances Garrettson RUSSELLBirth 9 Mar 1885 in New York, New York Death 23 Aug 1894 in New York, New York at age 6

2. Seventh Generation. Helen Prime RUSSELL Birth 6 Feb 1886 in New York, New York Death 18 Mar 1886 in New York, New York

3. Seventh Generation Elizabeth Jay RUSSELL Birth 8 Nov 1891 in New York, New York Death Aug 1973 in Washington Depot, Litchfield, Connecticut, married Stephen Lesher LANDON Birth 26 MAR 1884 in New York, New York Death 31 March 1977 in Washington Depot, Litchfield, Connecticut, They had three children.
Military. Stephan Landon Enlisted in the U.S.N.R.F. in May, 1917, and sailed for France in July on U.S.S. Guinevere. Transferred to U.S.S. Corona, and did convoy work along the French coast and in the English Channel. Commissioned Ensign in March, 1918, and served on U.S.S. Sigourney and U.S.S. Cummings, doing convoy duty for troopships. Arrived in the U.S. Jan. 19, and was relieved from active duty Feb. 1, 1919.

Miss Elizabeth Jay Russell, daughter of Mrs. Howland Russell, whose marriage to Mr. Stephen Lesher Landon. a son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hutton
Landon. of this city, will take place on November 23 In the Church ot the
Epiphany. Lexington avenue andThirty-fifth street, will be attended by
Mrs. Charles McGhee Tyson. MissesJoanna Auchlncloss. Cornelia Landon
and Alison Swan. Mr. Henry H. Landon. Jr. is to be his brother’a best
man. and the ushers will be Messrs.William Blair, of Chicago; Alnsley W.
Swayer, of Boston. Mass.; Harold M.London, Bayard Hoppin. Nathaniel R.
Landon. Charles H. Russell. Livingston Piatt and Moses Taylor Pyne. Following the ceremony there will be a. reception at the home of Mrs. Russell.
No. 243 Lexington avenue.

3. Sixth Generation. Helen Jay Garrettson+ Birth 6 Jul 1864 in New York
Death 1 Aug 1933 in New York. Buried in the Jay Cemetery. Unmarried.

Stephen L. Landon Jr., 79, of Washington Depot died Feb. 18 at New Milford Hospital. He was the widower of Joanne (Woodworth) Landon and Frances S. (Sweat) Landon. Mr. Landon was born Jan. 9, 1924, in New York, N.Y., son of the late Stephen L. and Elizabeth (Russell) Landon. He graduated from Yale University with a bachelor�s degree in engineering. He worked as a sales manager at Cannon Mills Corp. He was a Navy veteran of World War II and the Korean War. He was a member of St. John�s Episcopal Church in Washington. Mr. Landon is survived by three sons, Russell of Norwell, Mass., Stephen of North Carolina and Matthew of Brooklyn, N.Y.; a daughter, Linda of Santa Monica, Calif.; a brother, Howland of Grass Valley, Calif.; and two grandchildren.

SARAH JAY+Birth 19 Dec 1811 in New York, Death 9 Jan 1846 married William DAWSON+ Birth 1799 Death 12 Mar 1852 . They had one child who returned to England and married and had a lot of children. Both lived in New York and were buried in the Jay Cemetery.

2. Fifth Generation. Mary Jay DAWSON Birth Nov9,1843 in New York City New York
Death Jan 25,1914 in England married Col. Coville FRANKLAND Birth 26 Nov 1839 in France Death 22 Dec 1913 in Sussex, United Kingdom. They had eight children!

3. Sixth Generation. Eleanor Colville FRANKLAND Birth 16 Mar 1875 in Malta Death in England married Thomas Maberley COBBE Birth abt 1884 in England Death Jun 1914 in Balrothery, Dublin, Ireland. They had two children.
Eleanor Colville Frankland was the daughter of Colonel Colville Frankland and Mary Jay Dawson.1,2 She married, firstly, Thomas Maberley Cobbe, son of Leuric Charles Cobbe and Edith Corinne Brown, on 6 April 1905.1 She married, secondly, Cyril Corbally on 28 August 1915.1 She died on 10 March 1946.1
From 6 April 1905, her married name became Cobbe. From 28 August 1915, her married name became Corbally.1
Thomas Maberley Cobbe was born on 18 March 1884.1 He was the son of Leuric Charles Cobbe and Edith Corinne Brown.2 He married Eleanor Colville Frankland, daughter of Colonel Colville Frankland and Mary Jay Dawson, on 6 April 1905.1 He died on 7 June 1914 at age 30.1 He lived at Newbridge House, Donabate, County Dublin, Ireland.1

Charles Cobbe died in 1857 and was succeeded by his son, another Charles. He, in turn died in 1886 leaving no male issue – his estate passing to his wife for her lifetime.
Prior to her death she had persuaded Thomas Maherby Cobbe, a grandnephew of her late husband, to return to Newbridge from America to take over the estate.
He died young in 1914 leaving two infant children, Thomas and Francis, the latter dying in 1949. Thomas did not marry and on his death in 1985 was succeeded by Francis’ family, Hugh, Alec and Mary.

1. Seventh Generation. Thomas Leuric Cobbe2 b. 18 Feb 1912. d 1984
Thomas Leuric Cobbe was born on 18 February 1912.1 He is the son of Thomas Maberley Cobbe and Eleanor Colville Frankland.2
He was educated at Wellington College, Wellington, Berkshire, England.1 He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin University, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland.1 He lived at Newbridge House, County Dublin, Ireland.1 He had no children.

NEWBRIDGE HOUSE, near Donabate, County Dublin, was likely built ca 1737 by Richard Castle for Dr Charles Cobbe, later Lord Archbishop of Dublin.
It consists of two storeys over a high basement. The ashlar entrance front is of six bays, with a tripartite, pedimented door-case.
There is a broad flight of steps up to the hall door; while the solid roof parapet has urns, with eagles at the corners (not swans!).
Shortly after the Archbishop’s death in 1765 his son, Colonel Thomas Cobbe MP, whose wife was Lady Elizabeth Beresford, added an enormous drawing-room and a picture gallery to hold the extensive collection of Old Master paintings. This room, forty-five feet long, was given a Rococco ceiling.
In the Red Drawing Room (below), added by them, they lavishly entertained and hung many of their superb pictures, purchased on their behalf by the incumbent of Donabate Church, the Rev Matthew Pilkington, who was well qualified to buy on their behalf, as it was he who composed the first major English Dictionary of Painters.

IN 1986, Newbridge, complete with many of the original contents on loan, passed from the Cobbe family to Dublin County Council.
The Cobbe family continue to reside at Newbridge House from time to time, due to a unique arrangement which had been entered into between the family and the Council.

2. Seventh Generation. Francis Charles Cobbe+2 b. 4 Mar 1913, d. 17 July 1949
Francis Charles Cobbe was born on 4 March 1913.1 He was the son of Thomas Maberley Cobbe and Eleanor Colville Frankland.2 He married Joan Mervyn Cobbe, daughter of Captain Mervyn Hugh Cobbe and Caroline Anne Maude Arbuthnot, on 22 March 1941.1 He died on 17 July 1949 at age 36.1
He fought in the Second World War.1 He gained the rank of Lieutenant in the service of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.1
Joan Mervyn Cobbe was born on 7 July 1915.1 She is the daughter of Captain Mervyn Hugh Cobbe and Caroline Anne Maude Arbuthnot.2 She married Francis Charles Cobbe, son of Thomas Maberley Cobbe and Eleanor Colville Frankland, on 22 March 1941.1
She graduated from London University, London, England, in 1938 with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.).1 She graduated from Trinity College, Dublin University, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland, with a Higher Diploma of Education.1 She lived in 1976 at Newbridge House, Donabate, County Dublin, Ireland.1

1. Eighth Generation Hugh Michael Thomas Cobbe2 b. 20 Nov 1942
Hugh Michael Thomas Cobbe was born on 20 November 1942.1 He is the son of Francis Charles Cobbe and Joan Mervyn Cobbe.2
He was educated at St. Columba’s College, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland.1 He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England.1 He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin University, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland, in 1965 with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.).1 He was Assistant Keeper, Dept of Manuscripts, British Library between 1967 and 1969.1 He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin University, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland, in 1968 with a Master of Arts (M.A.).1 He was invested as a Fellow, Royal Geographical Society (F.R.G.S.) in 1971.1

2. Eighth Generation. Richard Alexander Charles Cobbe+3 b. 9 Jan 1945
Richard Alexander Charles Cobbe was born on 9 January 1945.2 He is the son of Francis Charles Cobbe and Joan Mervyn Cobbe.3,1 He married Hon. Isabel Anne Marie Henrietta Dillon, daughter of Lt.-Col. Michael Eric Dillon, 20th Viscount Dillon of Costello-Gallin and Irène Marie France Merandon du Plessis, on 25 July 1970.1
Richard Alexander Charles Cobbe usually went by his middle name of Alexander.2 He was educated at St. Columba’s College, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland.2 He graduated from Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, in 1968 with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.).2 He graduated from Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, in 1974 with a Master of Arts (M.A.).2 He was Deputy Keeper of Conservation at Birmingham Municipal Art Gallery, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England.2

3. Eigth Generation. Mary Frances Cobbe2 b. 18 Nov 1949
Mary Frances Cobbe was born on 18 November 1949.1 She is the daughter of Francis Charles Cobbe and Joan Mervyn Cobbe.2
She was a journalist.1 She graduated from Trinity College, Dublin University, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland, in 1972 with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.).1

4. Sixth Generation. William Jay Frankland Birth 14 Apr 1876 in Ireland Death Nov 1896 in unmarried.
William Jay Colville Frankland was born on 14 April 1876.1 He was the son of Colonel Colville Frankland and Mary Jay Dawson.1 He died in November 1896 at age 20.1

5. Sixth Generation Robert Cecil Frankland Birth 7 Jul 1877 in Ireland Death 7 Aug 1915 in Died in WW I
Robert Cecil Colville Frankland was born on 7 July 1877.1 He was the son of Colonel Colville Frankland and Mary Jay Dawson.1 He died on 7 August 1915 at age 38, killed in action.1
He gained the rank of Captain in the service of the 3rd Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment.1 He fought in the Boer War between 1899 and 1901.1 He fought in the First World War.1

6. Sixth Generation. Thomas Hugh Colville Frankland
Thomas Hugh Colville Frankland was born on 17 October 1879.1 He was the son of Colonel Colville Frankland and Mary Jay Dawson.1 He died on 25 April 1915 at age 35, killed in action.1
He fought in the Boer War between 1899 and 1902.1 He gained the rank of Captain and Brevet Major in the service of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.1 He fought in the First World War, and was mentioned in despatches.1 He gained the rank of Flying Officer in the service of the Royal Flying Corps.1

7. Sixth Generation, Beatrice Colville Frankland
Birth 1 Jan 1881 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, Beatrice Colville Frankland was the daughter of Colonel Colville Frankland and Mary Jay Dawson.1 She married George Crosbie Dawson, son of G. J. Crosbie Dawson, on 14 January 1915.1 She died on 11 October 1959.1 From 14 January 1915, her married name became Dawson.1

4. CATHARINE HELENA JAY+* Birth 11 Jun 1815 in New York, New York Death Sep 1889 in New Haven, CT HENRY AUGUSTUS DU BOIS+ MD Birth 9 Aug 1808 in New York, New York Death 13 Jan 1884 in New Haven, Connecticut,
Catharine Helena Jay was the third daughter of Peter Augustus Jay and Mary Rutherford Clarkson. She was the granddaughter of John Jay and Sarah Livingston. She was the fourth generation since the original settler, Auguste, came to Charleston, S.C. in 1690 escaping the Hugenot religous persecution in France. The couple had seven children, two of whom were active in the War between the States. She died at age 74 crippled with arthritis in New Haven, Ct.

Henry Augustus was the fourth child of Cornelius and Sarah Ogden Du Bois. He was educated in Paris and then went to College of Physicians and Surgeons for his M.D. He returned to France to study medicine and then returned to New York in 1834, a year before he was married to Catharine Helena Jay, the grand daughter of John Jay. He practiced in New York until 1840, and because of poor health retired. His father inherited land between the banks of the Mahoning River in Ohio and they were involved with the settlement of a new community, Newton Falls. During this time he was president of the Virginia Channel Coal Co. They moved back to New Haven in 1854, where he lived until he died at age 76. They were both buried in the Jay Cemetery.

Dr. Henry A. DuBois “in 1817 entered French Mil. Academy of Louis Baucel, a
royal refugee of the French Rev.; 1823 entered Columbia College; 1827 graduated; Oct. 23, 1830, grad. M.D. College of Physicians and Surgeons, N. Y. Sept. 1831, went to Europe to complete his studies, returning in 1834. While in Paris was made member of the Polish Committee, which met weekly at the home of Lafayette. Attended funeral of Lafayette, following with other Americans next to the body. Apr. 9, 1834, was elected in Paris member of Geological Society of France. In 1835 appointed first in list of Physi-
cians to New York Dispensary. * * Jan., 1852, he became President of Va. Canal Co. at Kanawha; July 28, 1864, received from Yale College degree of LL.D. in which he is signal- ized as one ‘ qui de fide Christiana defendenda bene mentus sit ‘ for his reply to the English Essayists and for his refutation of the scientific infidelity of Darwin and Huxley. In 1869 went to France, Italy, and Malta for recovery of his health, impaired by four years’ incessant labor and hardship at Kanawha; July 5. 1870, returned to his home in New Haven, where he d. 1884.”

735. Cornelius DuBois (C. L.), M.D. (Colonel); to distinguish himself from his uncle and cousin he took Jay as a middle name, b. at his father’s residence, 31 Clinton Place, N. Y. 1836; d. at his father’s residence, New Haven, Feb. 11, 1880; Col. Coll Law School, LL.B., 1861; Yale Medical Coll., 1866; had charge of a bonded warehouse. No. 9 Bridge st., 1858 ; admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the U. S. May 29, 1862 ; left New York in Co. K., 7th Reg. N. G., for the defence of Washington, April 19, 1861 ; went the 2d time with the 7th Reg., May 29, 1861, stationed at Fort Federal, Bait.; raised a Co. at New Haven, of which he was elected Capt., Sept. 11, 1862, Co. D. 27th Conn. Vol. ; went with his command to Washington, Oct. 23, 1862, and joined the 2d Army Corps, and was in the battles of Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862, Chancellorsville, May, 1863, and Gettysburg, July, 1863, where he was wounded in the right arm, July 2, while leading his men into action ; breveted Major by the President for his gal- lantry. When recovered he enlisted as Adjutant of the 20th Conn, and was with the Co. under Sherman in Ga. ; at the battle of Resaca, May 15, 1864, when the color-bearer was knocked down by a shell, he seized the colors, called on the men to rally, and led them up the hill past a battery (see Conn. Records) ; breveted Lt.-Col. for his gallantry by the President, and afterward Conn, gave him the brevet of Colonel. Practised medicine in Minneapo- lis and in New Haveno ; was confirmed by Bish. WiUiams in St. Paul’s, New Haven. The New Haven Medical Association adopted the following resolution :
‘■’■Resolved, That in this event we mourn the loss of one who was marked for his high intellectual abilities, his powers of memory and cultured mind, and whose genial social qualities gained him the continued warm regard of all his associates : and, though not of late engaged in the active duties of his profession, will be re- membered as one who had always been conspicuous for his zeal, his skilful and successful devotion to the pursuit of his calling — • always kind to the poor and needy, a devotion which tended in every way to elevate the standard of professional life.”

2. Fifth Generation. Henry A DU BOIS M D Birth 26 Jun 1840 in New York, New York Death 26 May 1897 in San Rafael, California married Emily Maria BLOIS Birth Mar 1851 in Whitwell, Norfolk, England Death 5 Mar 1910 in San Rafael, California. They had five children.
. Henry Augustus DuBois, M.D., b. at the residence of his g. f. DuBois, n. w. cor. Broadway and 8th street, June 26, 1840 ; Yale B.P., 1859; April 25, 1861, he joined the 12th Regiment of N.Y.S.N.G. as Hospital Steward, in a few weeks was examined for Asst. Surgeon, U.S.A., and passed No. 3 out of 40 applicants; Aug. 28, 186 1, was under Dr. Abadie in the Columbian Hospital, Washington, but was soon put in full charge. He served in the 6th U. S. Cavalry as Inspector of Cavalry ; May, 1862, Asst, Med. Director of the Army of the Potomac, subsequently Medical In- spector of the Artillery Reserve under Gen. Hunt ; was at the battles of Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, etc., in all about 40 battles ; 1864, Inspector of Hospitals at headquarters of the Army of the Potomac ; in June, 1864, on Gen. Sheridan’s staff; Aug., 1864, appointed Asst. Med. Director of the Middle Military Division of Va., on Sheridan’s staff, and was with him in all his battles, and present at Lee’s surrender ; brevetted by the President Captain, and subsequently Brevet Major. In 1865, took charge of the U. S. Laboratory in Phil. ; May, 1866, sent to Fort Union, New Mexico ; resigned Feb. 21, 1868, and is now practising medicine in San Rafael, Cal., where he has founded a cemetery (Temaulpas), of which he is Comptroller ; delivered in Yale Medical Coll., April,
i860, a course of lectures on Toxicology. Confirmed by Bishop Williams, in St. Paul’s, New Haven; m. in 5th Avenue Church, by Rev. John Hall, D.D., Dec. i, 1880, Emily, dau. of Hannah Maria Ferris (dau. of Miss Schieffelin, who was dau. of Hannah Lawrenceand Schieffelin), and Samuel Blois, M.D. i child.

5. Seventh Generation. David Van Fleet Du BOIS Birth 15 Aug 1921 in Stanislaus, California married Patricia C. MAHOY Birth 21 May 1927 in California, USA Death 20 Jun 2011 in Coarsegold, Madera, California, He had five children with his first wife and two children with his second wife.

4. Fifth Generation. Prof. Augustus Jay Du BOIS+ Birth 22 Apr 1849 in Newton Falls, Ohio Death 19 Oct 1915 married Adeline C BLAKESLEE Birth Feb 1860 in Connecticut Death 1916 . Sheffield Scientific School, Yale Univ Professor of Civil Engineering. They were both buried in the Jay Cemetery. They did not have children.
Augustus Jay DuBois, the son of Henry Augustus DuBois and Catherine Helena (Jay) DuBois, who had six other children, was born at Newton Palls, Ohio, on April 25th, 1849. His father, who was of French Huguenot descent, received the degree of M.D. from Columbia College in 1830 and spent most of his life in the practice of medicine. His mother was a granddaughter of Chief Justice John Jay, who was also of French Huguenot descent.
Mr. DuBois prepared for college at the Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven, Conn., and then took the course in Civil Engineering at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, from which lie was graduated in 1869. Continuing there in advanced studies, he secured the degree of C. E. in 1870 and that of Ph.D. in 1873. He then spent 18 months at the Royal Mining Academy in Freiberg, Saxony, followed by a few months of surveying work in California and Connecticut.
During 1871-75 he made a special study of the then new science of Graphic Statics, the results of which were published in 1875, in two volumes, under the title ”Elements of Graphical Statics and Their Application to Framed Structures.” This was the first comprehensive work on the subject which appeared in the United States, and it was re-issued in revised editions in 1877, 1879, and 1883.
In 1875, Mr. DuBois was appointed Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering in Lehigh University, from which he was called, in 1877, to the chair of Mechanical Engineering at the Sheffield Scientific School, and, in 1884, he was appointed Professor of Civil Engineering there, a position which he filled until his death.
During his forty years of service as a teacher of Engineering, Professor DuBois was active in enriching the theory of the subject. He translated from the fourth edition of Weisbach’s “Mechanics of Engineering”, the sections “Hydraulics and Hydraulic Motors” (published in 1877), and “Theory of the Steam Engine” (1877); also Weyrauch’s “Calculation of Iron and Steel Constructions” (1877), and Roentgen’s “Principles of Thermodynamics” (1879). These books were issued at a time when literature on these subjects was scanty in the United States, and they were used extensively in engineering schools and by engineers, each of them passing through several editions. In 1883 appeared the first edition of his “Stresses in Framed Structures,” a book in quarto form, which gave methods of computing stresses by both analytic and graphic processes and also contained fifteen folding plates of designs and working drawings of bridges. This book was « widely used as a text in engineering schools, and it passed through twelve editions, each being revised and improved. The manuscript for an enlarged edition was completed shortly before his death.
In 1894 and 1895 there appeared three octavo volumes by Professor DuBois, entitled “Elementary Principles of Mechanics”, one treating of kinematics, another of statics, and a third of kinetics. In 1901, these volumes were re-issued in revised quarto form as the first volume of “Mechanics of Engineering”, the second volume being the twelfth edition of his “Stresses in Framed Structures.”
Professor DuBois had contributed papers on roof trusses, retaining walls, and the steam engine to the technical journals; he had also taken part in discussions before the Society on flexure of beams, and had contributed papers on “The Weights of Bridges”* and on “The Strength of Columns”. +
During 1889-94 he prepared and delivered six lectures entitled “Science and Faith”, “Science and Immortality”, “Science and Miracle”, etc., which were published in the Century Magazine and other periodicals. These lectures were marked by originality of thought and beauty of style, and by the purpose to establish moral truths on the fundamental principles of mechanics: one of the last products of his pen was to summarize the conclusions of these lectures in an article in the Yale Review for July, 1913.
Professor DuBois was a hard worker, a clear and logical writer, and his books greatly advanced the interests of sound education in theoretical and applied mechanics. As a teacher, he was most successful, and especially was he insistent that students should acquire a thorough knowledge of fundamental principles. His successor, Professor John C. Tracy, in an obituary notice in the Yale Alumni Weekly, wrote as follows:
“A sympathetic interest, a ready wit, and a friendly unconventional manner won his students from the start. He was a clear and original thinker, and a keen but sympathetic critic. Breadth of culture and an unusual power of expression made him a brilliant and inspiring conversationalist. Underneath a quiet and undemonstrative exterior, there was a man chivalrous, sympathetic, always thoughtful of others, loyal,and wholly lovable. Only a few of his closest friends knew how, in his own quiet unostentatious way, he went about doing good, and to them he seemed an almost perfect type of Christian gentleman.”
Professor DuBois rarely attended engineering meetings, seeming to feel somewhat awkward outside of the circle of his friends and students. In his college days he was a good chess player and a member of the Book and Snake Fraternity, but he took little interest in other social activities. He made six trips to Europe, for rest and relaxation during summer vacations, but he never had a Sabbatical year in whole or in part during his forty years of service as a teacher.
He was married, on June 23d, 18.83, to Miss Adeline Blakesley, daughter of Arthur Blakesley, of New Haven, Conn. They had no children, and she survived him only seven months.
Professor DuBois was a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, as well as several scientific academies and associations.
Augustus Jay DuBois was elected a Junior of the American Society of Civil Engineers on July 7th, 1875, and a Member on October 5th, 1892.

5. Fifth Generation Alfred Wagstaff Du BOIS+ Birth 30 Dec 1852 in Newton Falls, Ohio Death 17 May 1900 . He married .Anna LICHTENBERG Birth 1870 in Germany
Death He was buried in the Jay Cemetery. They had no children. He was a Graduate of Yale. He and his wife lived in Marin County, California.

7. Fifth Generation. ROBERT OGDEN DU BOIS+ MD Birth 19 Jan 1860 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, Death 9 Mar 1896 in New York, Married ALICE MASON+ Birth 15 Apr 1865 in North Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, Death 1906 in New York. They had three children. Both are buried in the Jay Cemetery.

Robert Ogden Du Bois was the eighth and youngest child of Henry Augustus and Catharine Jay. He was born in New Haven, and went to Yale and then Yale Medical School. He moved to New York City and practiced general medicine and surgery and had an interest in ENT problems. He married Alice Mason. They had three children, Arthur, Helen and Robert. Robert had rheumatic fever as a child and died at age 36 from heart failure, a complication of his rheumatic heart disease..

Alice Mason married Robert Ogden Du Bois in 1889. She was the daughter of Arthur Mason, a well respected minister of the Episcopal Church. Her Mason ancestry goes back seven generations. The original settler Ralph Mason came to Boston in 1685. Her great grandfather, Jonathen Mason was a Senator from Mass in 1803. She died of pneumonia at age 41, and the three children were then brought up by her family. She had three sisters and one brother. Sister Isabella married Mansell Van Rensselaer. The other two sisters, (Maud and Teddy ) never married. Teddy helped raise John after his mother died and his father reactivated his tbc. (See Mason Descendants )

Sixth Generation Children of ROBERT OGDEN DU BOIS+ MD and
ALICE MASON+
Children of Alice Mason and Robert Ogden Du Bois
Alice Mason married Robert Ogden Du Bois They had three children Arthur, Helen and Robert. Arthur married M. Louise Dixon, who developed a family geneology. They had two children, Louise (Petey) and John. Petey married Edward C Perkins (Ned) and had five children, all of whom have married. Louie, Edward (Neddy), James, David and Kate. John married Adrienne Allen of Toronto and had three children, Anne, Catharine and Peter. This marriage ended in divorce and John married Sharon Menzie. They have one adopted child, Christopher. Helen married Frederick Kobbe and had two children, Alice and Helen. Alice married Franham Gilbert and Helen married Waldron Proctor and have two children. Robert married Elizabeth (Betty) Chisholm. He practiced as a pediatrician in New York City. They had two children. Robert (Bobby) and Philip who both married and had children.

1. Sixth Generation. ARTHUR MASON DU BOIS+ Birth Nov 4, 1890 in New York Death Dec 1979 in New York married MARIE LOUISE DIXON+*Birth 15 Dec 1895 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, Death 03 JUL 1943 in Hewlett, Nassau, New York, They had two children. Both are buried in the Jay Cemetery. Married Cornelia Prime COSTER
Birth 6 Feb 1901 in New York, New York, Death 11 Dec 1956 in New York,

Seventh Generation. Children of ARTHUR MASON DU BOIS+ and
MARIE. LOUISE DIXON+
1. Seventh Generation. Louise (Petey) Dixon DuBOIS Birth Sept 22, 1928 in New York City Living married Edward Clifford PERKINS Birth 31 Jul 1919 in New York Death 12 Aug 2002 in Tyringham, Massachusetts. They have five children.

2. Seventh Generation. JOHN JAY DUBOIS, MD Birth Nov 18, 1933 in New York City Living married Adrienne Ackerman ALLEN Birth Feb 6, 1938 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada . Living. They have three children. Married SHARON ELIZABETH MENZIE Birth Dec 24, 1944 in San Francisco, Calif. Living. They have one child (adopted) Chris.

John Jay Du BOIS graduated from Williams college in 1955 and Cornell Univ Medical College in 1959. He did his residency at St Luke’s Hopital in NYC. He practiced Internal Medicine in Rye N.Y. until 1990 and then he was with the MUSC in Charleston SC. He served as Medical Missionary to Panama from 2001 until 2010. He was president and Trustee of the Jay Cemetery from 1960 until 2000. He and his second wife, Sharon were involved with the resolution of saving the Peter Augustus Jay home and property. They continue on the Advisory Board of the Jay Heritage Center. He has been interested in family genealogy.

Eighth Generation. Children of JOHN JAY DUBOIS, MD and
Adrienne Ackerman ALLEN
1. Eighth Generation. Anne Ackerman DUBOIS Birth Sept 21, 1961 in New York City Living

2. Eighth Generation. Catharine Jay DUBOIS Birth May 1, 1963 in New York City Living married Harold Augustus O’Callaghan Birth Oct 23, 1962 in New York City Living. They have four daughters. Kate, Charlotte, Ally, and Sarah.

3. Eighth Generation. Peter Jay DUBOIS Birth May 26, 1966 in Rye, New York Living married Ingrid Dankmeyer Birth 1966 Living. Marriage ended in divorce in 2012. They have three children. Astrid, Greta, and Johan.

2. Sixth Generation. Helen Jay Du BOIS Birth 1892 in New York Death
married Frederick W KOBBE Birth 29 Apr 1887 in New York Death 1946 in Ridgefield, Conn. They had two children.

Seventh Generation. Children of Helen Jay Du BOIS and Frederick
W KOBBE
1. Seventh Generation. Alice M KOBBE Birth abt 1927 in New York Living married Farnam GILBERT Birth 10 Jan 1925 in Stamford, Fairfield, CT Death 10 Jan 1994 in Norwalk, Fairfield, CT. They did not have children.

2. Seventh Generation. Helen Jay KOBBE Birth abt 1930 in New York Living Married Waldron W. PROCTER Birth 1928 Death They have two children.

3. Sixth Generation. Robert Ogden Du BOIS+* MD Birth 3 Aug 1894 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, Death Sep 11, 1979 in Redding Center, Fairfield, Connecticut, married Elizabeth Harson CHISOLM+ Birth 17 Nov 1900 in Montclair, Essex, New Jersey, Death January 23, 1978 in Redding Center, Fairfield, Connecticut, They were both buried in the Jay Cemetery. He was President of The Jay Cemetery Corporation in the 1950’s. He practiced Pediatrics in New York City. They had two children.

Seventh Generation. Children of Robert Ogden Du BOIS+* MD and
Elizabeth Harson CHISOLM+
1. Seventh Generation. Robert Ogden Du BOIS, Jr. Birth Oct 30, 1926 in New York, Death January 13, 1999 in Mabou, Nova Scotia, Canada. Married Charlotte Erika Felicitas Stupp von STULPNAGEL. Birth February 25, 1933 in Bronxville, Westchester, New York, Death March 29, 2011 in Mabou, Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada. They had five children. They lived in Nova Scotia.

2. Seventh Generation. Philip Mason Du BOIS Birth 1930 in New York City Living. Married Jennifer LAND Birth 1935 Living. They have one child.

Morgan horse breeders. The Government Bred Morgan Vice-president and director of the American Morgan Horse Association, Dr. Phillip M DuBois

Jenifer Land Du Bois was the daughter of Scientist and inventor Edwin Land. He was born on May 7, 1909, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Land attended Harvard University briefly before establishing his own laboratory to study light polarization. The lab became the Polaroid Corporation in 1937, and introduced its groundbreaking instant camera and self-developing film in 1947. QUOTES “Don’t undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.” – Edwin Land died on March 1, 1991, at the age of 81, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is buried at the Mount Auburn Cemetery. He was survived by his wife, Helen Terre Maislen, whom he married in 1929, and their two daughters, Jennifer and Valerie. Following his death, Land’s assistant destroyed his papers, leaving gaps in both the historical record of Land’s life and the development of the Polaroid Corporation.

FOURTH GENERATION

5. Fourth Generation ANNA MARIA JAY and HENRY EVELYN PIERPONT

5. ANNA MARIA JAY** Birth 12 Sep 1819 in New York City, New York, Death 2 Jan 1902 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, married HENRY EVELYN PIERPONT Birth 8 Aug 1808 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, Death 28 Mar 1888 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York,
They had six children.

Henry Evelyn Pierrepont:The second son of Hezekiah Beers and Anna Maria Constable Pierrepont, Henry Evelyn was born in Brooklyn on August 8, 1808. Henry Evelyn was educated in New York City and quickly acquired his father’s prominence among Brooklyn’s elite. Upon the death of H.B. Pierpont, William Constable, the eldest Pierrepont son, took over the family’s upstate properties while Henry Evelyn remained in Brooklyn, maintaining the family’s influence on, and commitment to, the city’s development. On December 1, 1841, Henry Evelyn married Anna Maria Jay, daughter of Peter Augustus Jay and Mary Rutherford Clarkson, and granddaughter of John Jay, governor of New York (1795-1801) and the first Chief Justice of the United States. Together the couple had six children, including Henry Evelyn Pierrepont II and John Jay Pierrepont.

Henry Evelyn Pierrepont spent much of his life working to establish Brooklyn as a flourishing metropolis. In 1844 a Brooklyn ferry lease was granted to Henry Evelyn Pierrepont and Jacob R. Leroy, who combined the five existing Brooklyn ferries into the Brooklyn Union Ferry Company. The venture created a more frequent and regular service between Brooklyn and New York City, and effectively monopolized transportation across the East River prior to the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883.

By 1857 Henry Evelyn and William Pierrepont had established a joint venture, the Pierrepont Stores, “a United States bonded warehouse where ships’ freight was received and stored for the owners, insured by the government, until duties were paid.” The Stores was a major port of entry for a number of different cargoes (primarily sugar and molasses) from locales ranging from the Caribbean to Manila. Upon Henry Evelyn’s retirement from business, his two sons took over the Pierrepont Stores, which they operated until leased to the Empire Warehouse Company in 1888, shortly after the death of their father on March 28, 1888.

Henry Evelyn Pierrepont dedicated much of his time to the cultural development of the city, as well as its commercial expansion. He held a number of prominent positions, such as Trustee of Brooklyn Hospital, Trustee and President of Green-Wood Cemetery, Director of the Academy of Music, Director and President of the Brooklyn Club, and Director of The Long Island Historical Society.

DESCENDANTS of ANNA MARIA JAY and HENRY EVELYN PIERPONT

1. Fifth Generation. Mary Rutherford PIERREPONT Birth 25 Aug 1842 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, USA Death 31 Dec 1879 in 242 E 15th St., New York City married Rutherford STUYVESANT Birth 2 Sep 1842 in New York, NY Death 4 Jul 1909 in Paris,France. They had one child who died at birth.
RUTHERFORD STUYVESANT, died in Paris on July 4, 1909. His real name was Stuyvesant Rutherford and among his ancestors were Governor Peter Stuyvesant; Governor John Winthrop, of Massachusetts; Governor Dudley, of Connecticut; Lewis Morris, Chief Justice of New York, and first Governor of New Jersey. His father was Lewis Morris Rutherford and his mother was Margaret Stuyvesant Chanler. By the will of his mother’s great-uncle, Peter Gerard Stuyvesant’s property was left to him upon the condition of his changing his family name to Stuyvesant, which was done by an act of the Legislature. In 1863 he graduated from Columbia College and in the same year he married Mary Rutherford Pierrepont, daughter of Henry Evelyn Pierrepont and Anna Maria Jay. Mrs. Stuyvesant died in 1879. On June 16, 1902, he married in London the Countess Mathilde E. de Wassanaer, the widow of a Dutch nobelman. A son was born of this marriage. Mr. Stuyvesant, who was sixty-nine years of age at the time of his death, was a brother of Winthrop Rutherford, who married Alice Morton, and of Mrs. Henry White, at that time American Ambassador in France. He was a cousin on his mother’s side of William Astor Chanler and Mrs. Richard Aldrich. He was the owner of Tranquility Farms, near Tranquility, N. J., famous for its elk and deer park and extensive English pheasant preserves.
He left a considerable estate which was divided among his family and his charitable interests.
The Stuyvesant land covered much of what is now known as the East Village. During the 19th century what had been rolling farmland was developed with row houses, commercial buildings and tenements. After the Civil War, German immigrants crowded in, creating a lively and colorful neighborhood.

In the meantime, Rutherford Stuyvesant married Mary Rutherford Pierrepont on October 13, 1863. She was the daughter of the prestigious and wealthy Henry Evelyn and Anna Jay Pierrepont of Brooklyn. Their lives together were happy and loving; but then on New Year’s Eve 1879, the expectant Mary went into labor. Neither Mary nor the infant survived.

In deep grief, Stuyvesant planned a monument to his wife. He arranged to build a memorial chapel connected with St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery, the Episcopal church built by Peter Stuyvesant in 1795 on his farm land.

Stuyvesant chose a large plot of land at the corner of East 10th Street and Avenue A where a small St. Mark’s mission structure already stood. He hired the eminent architect James Renwick, Jr. who was already responsible for the magnificent Grace Episcopal Church and St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Renwick worked with W. H. Russell in creating an edifice far removed from those lacy Gothic churches.

2. Fifth Generation. HENRY EVELYN PIERREPONT Birth December 9, 1845 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, Death 4 Nov 1911 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, married Ellen Almira LOW Birth 30 JUN 1846 in Brooklyn, NY Death 30 DEC 1884 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States. They had Six children.
Henry Evelyn Pierrepont II: The eldest son of Henry Evelyn and Anna Maria Pierrepont, Henry Evelyn II was born in Brooklyn on December 9, 1845. Henry Evelyn, Jr. studied at Columbia College, receiving his B.A. in 1867. In 1869 he married Ellen A. Low, daughter of Ellen Almira Dow and Abiel Abbot Low, with whom he had six children. He and his brother, John Jay, soon took charge of the Pierrepont Stores, joining forces with Ferdinand N. Massa in the firm of Pierrepont Brothers. The brothers sold the Stores in 1888 and Henry Evelyn, Jr. retired from active business ventures, devoting his time to the further development of his real estate holdings. He continued his commitment to work within the community, most notably at Grace Church, of which his father had been a founding member and senior warden, a position which Henry Evelyn, Jr. also came to hold. Henry Evelyn Pierrepont II died in Brooklyn on November 4, 1911.

Sixth Generation. Children of HENRY EVELYN PIERREPONT and Ellen Almira
LOW
1. Sixth Generation. Anne Low PIERREPONT Birth 23 SEP 1870 in Ventnor, Isle of Wight, England Death 8 Jun 1948 married Lea McIlvaine LUQUER Birth 4 Sep 1864 in Brooklyn, New York Death 30 Jan 1930 in New York, New York. They had
four children.
Lea Mellivaine Luquer, Phd was professor of mineralogy at Columbia University and author of several text books on this subject.

Children of Anne Low PIERREPONT and Lea McIlvaine LUQUER

1. Seventh Generation. Lea Shippen LUQUER Birth 21 Sep 1897 in Brooklyn, New York Death 1970 married Grace Hamilton PARKER. Birth abt 1900 in Massachusetts
Lea Shippen Luquer died on July 4, 1981 in Falmouth, Massachusetts after a long illness at the age of eighty-three years. Bom in Brooklyn, New York, on September 21, 1897, the elder son of Lea Mcllvaine Luquer and Anne Lowe Pierrepont Luquer, he spent his childhood years in Mt. Kisco. Entering St. Paul’s in 1912, he was a member of the Delphian athletic club, the Shattuck Boat Club and the Scientific Association. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Columbia University. After teaching for a time at Yale, and in China at Chang Sha, Hunan, he took a master’s of divinity degree from the Episcopal Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia. He taught at the Asheville School in North Carolina for seven years, and then at the Dexter School in Boston for a year. During World War 11, he worked with the U. S. Army Ordinance, before becoming a curator with Boston’s Harrison Gray Otis House of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, a position he held until several years ago when he retired. A member of the board of the Early American Glass Club and secretary of the Brookline Thursday Club for twenty-five years, he also served as a vestryman at the Church of Our Saviour in Brookline and actively assisted as a volunteer and board member of the Cotuit, Massachusetts Library. One of his great loves was mountain climbing; an enthusiastic member of the Appalachian Mountain Club’s Forty-Sixers, he topped the forty-eight tallest mountains in the Range. He is survived by his wife, Grace Parker Luquer; two sons, Lea Shippen Luquer, Jr. and Peter C. Luquer; a daughter, Mrs. Edward W. Madeira, Jr.; a sister, Mrs. Thomas L. Purdy, Jr.; a brother, Evelyn P. Luquer *20; and eight grandchildren.

The commission’s report cited “the increasingly strident political criticism of particular judicial decisions and activities” as the impetus for the examination. While the commission found that there is nothing new about judicial criticism, it noted that a shift in the interbranch relationship has occurred in which Congress has taken an increasing interest in the internal management and operational efficiencies of the Judiciary and “an unfortunate shrillness has often marked the tenor of inter-branch discussions. This new skepticism has caused some to fear that Congress is seeking to over-regulate the courts in ways that are not in keeping with a truly independent Judiciary.” Said commission chair Edward W. Madiera, Jr., “Judicial independence is not for the protection of judges, but for the protection of the public.”

1920 — Evelyn Pierrepont Luquer died in Princeton, New Jersey, on September 27, 1983. The son of Anne Pierrepont Luquer and Lea Mcllvaine Luquer, he was bom in New York City on October 20,1900, and entered School in the I Form from Mount Kisco, New York.
He graduated from Princeton University in 1923 and Columbia University Law School in 1926. He was a partner in the New York firm of Satterlee and Canfield until 1950 and was thereafter engaged in the private practice of law, retiring in 1969 to Princeton.
He was for many years a trustee of the New York Marble Cemetery, treasurer of the Navy Branch of the YMCA at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and a governor of the Princeton Charter Club.
Surviving are his wife, Frances Jones Luquer, of Princeton; a daughter, Mrs. John I. Boswell of Hanover, New Hampshire; and a sister, Mrs. Thomas L. Purdy, Jr., of Purdys, New York.

4. Seventh Generation. Ellen Pierrepont LUQUER Birth July 28, 1909 in Bar Harbor, Hancock, Maine, Death Feb 1984 in Purdys, Westchester, New York married Thomas Lyon PURDY,Jr Birth 26 Oct 1909 in New York Death 22 Dec 2003 in Purdys, Westchester, New York. They had two children.

Thomas Lyon (9) Purdy says that DeLancy married a Van Cortlandt daughter;her dowry was large tracts of land in Cortlandt Manor. Near or duringthe Revolution, DeLancy (active Loyalist leader) decided to sell off alot of his land in case he lost it. Two Purdys who wanted to be millers,of Rye, bought it (Daniel 3 and Hachaliah his brother). Daniel gave hispart to his grandsons because his sons were Tory. Joseph L. picked aspot where he could build a small dam and a mill. This family haspictures of the dam and mill, before the building of the NYC water supplyTiticus Reservoir and Muscoot (Croton) Reservoir dams c1893. The housesin the valley that were going to be flooded were moved to the presentsite of the hamlet of Purdys. The Joseph L. Purdy house was not moved.Daniel 3 of course lived and gave the land prior to the Revolution.Joseph L. Purdy erected the frame of his house the day of the battle ofBunker Hill. There were strong feelings about Tory vs. Whig so some ofthese stories have been given a bit of a slant over the years.

Eighth Generation Children of Ellen Pierrepont LUQUER and Thomas Lyon
PURDY,Jr
1. Ellen L PURDY Birth abt 1939 in New York Living married John C. B. WEBSTER. Birth 1935. Alive. They were married in 1959 and then divorced in 1987.

Reuben Burnham, son of Dr. Reuben Curtis and Elizabeth Virginia (Barclay) Moffat, was born in Brooklyn, New York, January 7, 1861. He attended the schools of his native city, and prepared for college at the Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire. He graduated from Harvard College in 1883 with the degree of B. A. and from the Columbia Law School in New York, in 1885, LL. B. He has practiced his profession continuously in the city of New York. In 1896 he formed a partnership with Sherman Evarts under the firm name of Evarts & Moffat, and in 1904 with Willoughby Lane Webb, under the firm name of Moffat & Webb. In 1906 this latter firm became Rand, Moffat & Webb, the new partners being William Rank Jr., Frederick Kernochan and Frank A Lord, and later Landon Parker Marvin. In 1910 the firm dissolved, and since then Mr. Moffat has practiced alone. He married, June 5, 1895, Ellen Low, daughter of Henry Evelyn and Ellen A (Low) Pierrepont, born in Brooklyn, New York, April 15, 1872. Three children have been born to them: 1. Jay Pierrepont, born in Rye, New York, July 18, 1896. 2. Elizabeth Barclay, born in Rye, New York, June 26, 1898. 3. Abbot Low, born in New York City, May 12,1901.
Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley.

Jay Pierrepont Moffat (7 January 1896 – January 25, 1943) was an American diplomat, historian and statesman who, between 1917 and 1943, served theState Department in a variety of posts, including that of Ambassador to Canada during the first year of U.S. participation in World War II.
A native of Rye, New York, Moffat was a professional diplomat who had previously served as the private secretary to the American Ambassador to theNetherlands (1917-19), followed by service as secretary of the American legation in Warsaw (1919-21) and in Tokyo (1921-23). Between 1925 and 1927 he served President Calvin Coolidge as Ceremony Officer at the White House and in 1927, at the end of his assignment, he was married in Hancock, New Hampshire to Lilla Cabot Grew, the daughter of fellow diplomat Joseph C. Grew who, while Moffat was serving in his final post as ambassador to Canada, was the U. S. Ambassador to Japan at the time of the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
Moffat continued his diplomatic career in the post of secretary to the American legation in Switzerland (1927-31) and as the U.S. consul general to Australia(1935-37). From 1937 to 1940 he again served in Washington, this time in the significant post of the Chief of the State Department’s Western EuropeanDivision. Finally, in June 1940, after Ambassador to Canada James H. R. Cromwell resigned after 142 days to run for the U.S. Senate, President Franklin Roosevelt nominated Moffat to his first and, as it turned out, final post as U.S. ambassador. He was immediately confirmed and served until his death, two years and seven months later, in the midst of World War II.
Jay Pierrepont Moffat died in Ottawa two and-a-half weeks after his 47th birthday and was succeeded as ambassador by Ray Atherton. In his obituary, The New York Times remarked that “even in war, when death is knocking at such a multitude of doors, the loss of a trusted public man in the flower of his age and his powers is lamentable”. In addition to his work as a diplomat, he wrote a work on Turkish history and, in 1956, his papers were donated to the Harvard University Library by his father-in-law Ambassador Joseph Grew.

2. Eighth Generation. Ambassador J. Peter MOFFAT Birth 17 Jan 1932 in New York City, married Pamela Mary DAWSON Birth 15 Aug 1932 in Washington, District of Columbia, Living. They had three children.

Jay Pierrepont Moffat, Jr. (born January 17, 1932) is an American diplomat. He was the United States Ambassador to Chad from 1983 to 1985. He was the first ambassador to the newly reopened U.S. Embassy in N’Djamena. He is a member of the Butler-Belmont family.[1][2] Contents [hide] 1 Biogrpahy 2 See also 3 References 4 External links [edit]Biogrpahy Jay Moffat was born in 1932. His father was the United States Ambassador to Canada, Jay Pierrepont Moffat. He was also the grandnephew of Seth Low Pierrepont (member of Connecticut House of Representatives, 1921 to 1927) and nephew of Abbot Low Moffat (member of New York State Assembly from the New York County 15th District, 1929 to 1943). On December 28, 1953, Moffat married Pamela Mary Dawson.[3] He graduated from Harvard University with an A.B. in 1953. Moffat served in the United States Army from 1953 to 1956. In 1956 he entered the U.S Foreign Service as intelligence research officer in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research. He was consular officer in Kobe and Osaka, Japan, from 1958 to 1960, and political officer in Paris, France, from 1961 to 1965. In the State Department he served as officer in charge of Benelux affairs at the Bureau of European Affairs from 1965 to 1968, and staff assistant to the Secretary of State from 1968 to 1969. He was a political officer in Bern, Switzerland, from 1969 to 1970, and Deputy Chief of Mission in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago from 1971 to 1974. In 1974, he attended the NATO Defense College in Rome, Italy. From 1974 to 1976 he was Deputy Executive Secretary in the State Department. He was Deputy Chief of Mission in Rabat, Morocco, from 1976 to 1980 and attended the Executive Seminar in National and International Affairs at the Foreign Service Institute from 1980 to 1981. He was chargé d’affaires in N’Djamena in 1982.[4] On April 28, 1983, he was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to be the United States Ambassador to Chad. He was confirmed on May 27, 1983. He succeeded John Blane, who was the chargé d’affaires ad interim in Chad from 1982 to 1983. He left that post on July 23, 1985. Moffat’s foreign languages are French, German, and Russian.

Ninth Generation. Children of J. Peter MOFFAT and Pamela Mary
DAWSON
1. Ninth Generation. Sarah Margaret MOFFAT Birth 15 May 1956
Living married Emanuel Nahum SREBRO+ Birth 30 Jul 1952 in Boston, Massachusetts, Death 16 Nov 2004 in Montclair, New Jersey, He was buried in the Jay Cemetery. They have three children. Emily, Jane, Rachel

2. Seventh Generation. Elizabeth Barclay MOFFAT Birth 26 Jun 1898 in Rye, New York Death 17 JUN 1993 in Chester, Queen Annes, Maryland, at age 95. married John Campbell WHITE Birth 17 MAR 1884 in London, Middlesex, England Death 11 JUN 1967 in New York City, New York. They had one child.

He served in the U.S. Foreign Service as a diplomat from 1914 to 1945, and was U.S. ambassador to Haiti (1941-1944) and Peru (1944-1945).

3. Seventh Generation. ABBOT LOW MOFFAT Birth 12 May 1901 in New York, New York Death 17 Apr 1996 in Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey, Married Marion ADAMS Birth 7 Nov 1905 in New York, Death 22 Dec 1994 in Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey,

Abbot Low Moffat was born to a prominent Manhattan family on May 12, 1901.[1] He was educated at Groton School, received his A.B. from Harvard University in 1923, and received his LL.B. from Columbia University in 1926. He was admitted to the New York State bar in 1927. In 1927-1928 he served as an assistant United States attorney for the southeastern counties of New York State, and in 1928-1929 worked as a clerk for the Manhattan law firm of Winter and James. In 1929, Moffat won election to the New York State Assembly from the Fifteenth Assembly District, which covered part of New York County. He was one of a small group of Republican legislators who wrested control of the Assembly and the Senate from the party’s established leadership and enabled the legislature to play a larger role in state politics. Moffat was assigned a seat on the powerful Assembly Ways and Means Committee and eventually served as its chair (1938-1943). His efforts to rein in the spending of Governor Herbert Lehman were instrumental in giving the legislature a greater say in the shaping of the state’s budget. In 1939, the conflict with Lehman culminated in a full-fledged legislative revolt: the Assembly and Senate essentially rewrote the budget that Lehman had submitted. The governor sued, and a state court ultimately upheld the right of the Governor to draft the budget. However, in subsequent decades legislative leaders who followed in Moffat’s footsteps gained control over the budget-making process. Moffat was determined to curb government spending and was a fierce opponent of the governmental centralization implicit in the New Deal.[2] However, he pressed for what he saw as prudent government initiatives. He introduced a number of bills designed to halt child labor in New York and other states and replace slum dwellings with suitable public housing.[3] He was also instrumental in initiating the construction of a toll road connecting New York City with Albany, Buffalo, and the western New York State-Pennsylvania border: he drafted and co-sponsored the bill that authorized the project, shepherded the bill through the Legislature, and witnessed its signing. He was piqued that the New York State Thruway was eventually named after Governor Thomas E. Dewey, who secured funding for the project. While serving in the Assembly, Moffat was a delegate to the state’s 1938 constitutional convention. He sought to curb government spending and spoke out against a proposed amendment that would have facilitated the state’s use of wiretapping in criminal investigations.[4] Moffat also served on the New York State War Council from 1942-1943. He helped to secure funding for child care for female war workers and streamlined the state’s revenue flow by backing legislation allowing quarterly payment of state income tax.[5] In 1943, Moffat resigned his Assembly seat and took a position with the United States Department of State. He served as the head of the Division of Southeast Asian Affairs from 1944-1947 and in 1946 met with Vietnamese nationalist leader Ho Chi Minh. His reports to his superiors cautioned against Washington’s inflexible opposition against nationalist movements in Vietnam and other colonies. Convinced that American statesmen had erred grievously in making anti-communism the cornerstone of postwar foreign policy, he later asserted that it seemed as if the world had been plunged “right back in[to] the wars of religion.” In subsequent years, he was openly critical of American involvement in Vietnam. Moffat was subsequently attached to numerous diplomatic missions in Greece (1947-1948), Great Britain (1948-1950), and Burma (1950-1952). Between 1954 and 1956, he worked for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development in Washington. D.C., serving as head of the department in charge of the Middle Eastern states. He was then posted to Ghana, where he became head of a survey team for the International Cooperation Administration (1957-1958) and Chief of the U.S. Operations Mission (1958-1960). After leaving Ghana, he served as a representative on a team charged with evaluating the Mutual Security Program (1960-1961) in the Far East. In 1961, Moffat, who had become a Democrat at the urging of his wife, Marion, retired and moved to Princeton, New Jersey. He published a sympathetic biography of Mongkut, the Thai monarch depicted as a despot in the musical The King and I, and pursued his lifelong interest in genealogical research.[6] In 1973-1976, he was a member of the Princeton Township Committee. Moffat died on April 17, 1996 at the age of ninety-four. He was survived by his three children, Burnham Moffat, Nancy Moffat Lifland, and Jane-Kerin Moffat

Eighth Generation. Children of ABBOT LOW MOFFAT and Marion ADAMS
1. Eighth Generation. Nancy MOFFAT Birth 23 Mar 1928 married William T LIFLAND Birth 15 Nov 1928 Death May 3, 2012
William Thomas Lifland, a leading New York antitrust lawyer and longtime Princeton resident, died peacefully on Thursday evening, May 3, at his home at Stonebridge at Montgomery, a retirement community in Skillman, New Jersey, after a long illness. He was 83. Born November 15, 1928, in Jersey City, NJ, he was the older son of I. Charles and Carol Francks Lifland. He attended public schools in Jersey City, graduating as valedictorian of his Lincoln High School class in 1945. He attended Yale College, where he majored in economics and was a champion fencer. After graduating magna cum laude with Phi Beta Kappa honors in 1949, he went on to Harvard Law School, where he was president of the Harvard Law Review and graduated cum laude in 1952. From 1952 to 1954 he served in the Air Force General Counsels Office, attaining the rank of 1st Lieutenant. In the fall of 1954 he became law clerk to John Marshall Harlan II, then a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. When Judge Harlan was confirmed as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court the following March, Mr. Lifland accompanied him to Washington as his first clerk. After the clerkship ended, he joined the New York law firm now known as Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP, where he practiced antitrust law until his retirement in 2002. Mr. Liflands legal practice touched on all areas of antitrust law. He was antitrust counsel to a diverse array of companies and trade groups, including Sony, CPC International, the Newhouse newspaper chain, the National Coffee Association, the New York Jockey Club, and the Newspaper Association of America, among many others. He developed successful antitrust defenses to attempted hostile takeovers of supermarket retailer A&P and aerospace manufacturer Grumman. In an important test of the governments merger guidelines, he won a ruling that the governments attempt to block industrial clay manufacturer Engelhards acquisition of its principal rival did not adequately consider the economics of the markets for the companies products. His pioneering work for Citibank on antitrust issues in electronic banking led to an invitation to testify before the congressionally-created Electronic Funds Transfer Commission. After he secured a victory for another longtime client, British razor blade and sword maker Wilkinson Sword, the company presented him with a replica of George Washingtons inaugural dress sword, a fitting gift for a former college fencer. A recognized dean of the New York antitrust bar, Mr. Lifland wrote the New York Law Journals monthly Antitrust column for over 33 years, from 1973 to 2007. He taught antitrust law as an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School from 1981 to 2004, and served for 30 years as an instructor and antitrust program chair for the Practicing Law Institute. He authored State Antitrust Law (1984), one of the first comprehensive treatises on state competition laws, and co-authored Understanding the Antitrust Laws (1980), a well-known handbook for non-specialists. He served on the governing council of the American Bar Association Antitrust Section and chaired the New York State Bar Association Antitrust Section, which in 1997 awarded him its Distinguished Service Award. In 2007 the Section renamed its Distinguished Service Award the William T. Lifland Service Award in his honor. He was a founding director and officer of Commodities Corporation in Princeton, which later became Stockton Holdings, Ltd. He met his future wife, Nancy Moffat, in 1952 on a blind date while both were working in Washington, he for the Air Force and she for the State Department. They were married in Washington in 1954 and took up residence in New York City, only to return to Washington a few months later due to Justice Harlans change of court. They moved back to New York when Mr. Lifland started work at Cahill, then to France in 1958 for a two-year stint at Cahills Paris office. After returning to the United States in 1960, the couple settled permanently in Princeton, where they raised their four children. At home Mr. Lifland enjoyed making furniture and tinkering with electronics in his basement workshop. He also built a darkroom for developing and printing his own photographs. He was an avid reader and loved going to the theatre, concerts, and opera. He enjoyed playing tennis, bicycling, and traveling with his wife. He was an officer of India House in New York and member of the Nassau Club in Princeton. A longtime member of Trinity Church, Princeton, he was a chair of the Outreach Committee and member of the Ushers Guild. Mr. Lifland is survived by his wife of 57 years, Nancy; his brother, John Lifland and wife Jean of Sea Girt, NJ; his daughter, Carol Lifland and husband Daniel Giesberg of Los Angeles, CA; his sons, Charles Lifland and wife Alison of Pasadena, CA; Kerin Lifland of Grass Valley, CA; and David Lifland and wife Catherine Radmer of Wayland, MA; eleven grandchildren, three nieces and their families, and many cousins. Interment will be held privately for the family. A memorial service will be held in the fall.

Jane-Kerin Moffat of Greenwich, Connecticut is the regional director for National Audubon Society’s Northeast Region. She is a member of the Audubon Connecticut Advisory Board, Chair of its Chapters and Members’ Services Committee, and a lifetime honorary member of Audubon Greenwich Advisory Board. Previously she served as grassroots coordinator of Audubon’s “Listen to the Sound” (Long Island Sound) campaign and the Sound-wide coalition of environmental groups to which it gave rise. For many years, she also served as a leader of the former Audubon Council of Connecticut and of the former Greenwich Audubon Society. She is a retired school teacher. She has also been very supportive of the Jay Heritage Center.

4. Sixth Generation. Robert Low PIERREPONT Birth 22 AUG 1876 in Luzerne, NY Death 1912 in ? Married Kathryn Isabel REED Birth May 18, 1879 in South Weymouth, Massachusetts. They had three children.Only one lived to adulthood.

Mr. Pierrepont graduated from Columbia College, New York City, in 1898, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He is a director of the Low Moor Iron company, the Home Life Insurance Company, a trustee of the South Brooklyn Savings Institution, Brooklyn Trust Company, Greenwood Cemetery and of the Church Charity Foundation. He is a member of the St. Anthony, Hamilton and Down Town clubs. Mr. Pierrepont is the owner by inheritance of a life-sized picture of General George Washington, pained by no less an artist than Gilbert Stuart, for his ancestor, Willian Constable, which is authenticated by the original letter and bill made out to Mr. Constable. The picture was said to be by competent critics of that day who knew General Washington personally the most perfect likeness extant of the great man, who was a friend of the Constable family. The picture is in the old house in Pierrepont Place.
Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York, 1913. p. 344-345

Seventh Generation. Children of Robert Low PIERREPONT and Kathryn Isabel REED
1. John Jay PIERREPONT Birth March 15, 1902 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, Death Oct 15, 1950. Unmarried.

5. Sixth Generation Rutherford Stuyvesant PIERREPONT Birth 5 Jul 1882 in Luzerne, NY Death 14 Dec 1950 in New York, New York married Nathalie Leon De CASTRO. Birth 2 Aug 1885 in Roslyn, Queens Co., NY Death 20 May 1973 in Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey. They had three children.

Rutherfurd Stuyvesant, son of Henry Evelyn (2) and Ellen Almira (Low) Pierrepont, was born in Luzerne, New York, July 5, 1882. He graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Columbia College. He is interested with his brother, Robert Low Pierrepont, in his business enterprises. He is a director of the Hanover Fire Insurance Company, of the Low Moor Iron Company, and a member of the St. Anthony, Hamilton, Down Town and Union clubs. He married, in Roslyn, New York, December 5, 1911, Nathalie Leon de Castro, born in New York City, August 2, 1885, daughter of Alfred and Annie (Godwin) de Castro; resides in New York City. One child, Mary Rutherfurd, born in New York City, December 6, 1912.

6. Sixth Generation. Seth Low PIERPONT Birth 25 DEC 1884 in Brooklyn, NY Death 31 Mar 1956 in New York, New York married Nathalie Elisabeth CHAUNCEY Birth 14 Jul 1887 in New York, New York Death 28 Feb 1960 in Ridgefield, Connecticut
He was a Vice President of the Jay Cemetery in the 1940’s

3. Fifth Generation . John Jay PIERREPONT Birth 3 Dec 1849 in Rye, Westchester, New York, Death 25 Sep 1923 married Elsie De RHAM Birth 18 JUL 1850 in New York, NY Death 10 Oct 1879 in New York, She died after childbirth along with her newly born son.
John Jay Pierrepont: The younger of Henry Evelyn Pierrepont’s two sons, John Jay was born in Brooklyn on September 3, 1849. John Jay married, on April 26, 1876, Elise de Rham, the daughter of Charles de Rham and Laura Schmidt, and the couple had one child who died before reaching one year of age. Elise Pierrepont died less than two years later on October 17, 1879 and John Jay Pierrepont lived out the rest of his life in the family house at One Pierrepont Place in Brooklyn, remaining an active member of Brooklyn society until his death on September 25, 1923.

He was an amateur photographer. John Jay Pierrepont photograph collection, spanning the dates 1876 to 1923 (bulk dates 1910 to 1923), measures 1.92 linear feet and is housed in three lantern slide boxes and one manuscript box. The collection consists of 177 black-and-white lantern slides and glass positive photographs, one photograph album, and 166 black-and-white photographic prints. The majority of the items in the collection were created by John Jay Pierrepont, an amateur photographer. The collection also includes several items that were created by two New York City-based lantern slide manufacturers: T.H. McAllister and Walter Isaacs. The subjects of the photographs are predominantly Brooklyn related, in particular historic houses and homesteads in Brooklyn, maritime activities on New York Harbor, as well other Brooklyn subjects such as Prospect Park and the neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights.

Pierrepont, William Augustus, LL.B. 1876, M.D., N. Y. Univ. Med. Coll. 1882, a great grandson of John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United Stales Supreme Court, died of heart trouble recently at the family resi dence, 1 Pierrepont Place, Brooklyn Heights, at the age of fort3′-six. His mother, Mrs. Anna Maria Pierrepont, widow of Henry E. Pierrepont, had died a few days before. Dr. Pierrepont was a bachelor and made his home with his mother. He had been ill at his home for two weeks and undoubtedly the shock of his mother’s death hastened his end. Of late years Dr. Pierrepont had lived somewhat retired.

PETER AUGUSTUS JAY+ Jr. Birth 23 Oct 1821 Death 31 Oct 1855 married JOSEPHINE PEARSON+ Birth 13 May 1829 in Washington, Death 5 Jan 1852
They were both buried in the Jay Cemetery. They had one child. They both died at a young age and their son was raised by family.

Josephine Pearson’s father was Joseph Pearson (1776 – October 27, 1834) He was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born in Rowan County, North Carolina, in 1776; completed preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Salisbury, North Carolina; member of the State house of commons from Rowan county in 1804 and 1805; elected as a Federalist to the Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Congresses (March 4, 1809-March 3, 1815); while in Congress fought a duel with John G. Jackson, of Virginia, and on the second fire wounded his opponent in the hip; died in Salisbury, N.C., October 27, 1834.

Fifth Generation. Children of PETER AUGUSTUS JAY+ Jr. and JOSEPHINE PEARSON+
1. Fifth Generation. AUGUSTUS JAY+ Birth 17 Oct 1850 in Washington City, District of Columbia Death 25 Dec 1919 in New York, New York married Emily Astor KANE+ Birth 17 NOV 1854 in New York, New York, USA Death 14 DEC 1932 in Long Island, Suffolk County, New York. They were buried in the Jay Cemetery. They had two children.

Augustus Jay, a member of one of the most distinguished of American families and for many years prominent in the social life of this city and Newport, died Thursday night of heart disease at his home, 960 ParkAvenue. He had been in failing health for several years and recently there had been successive occurrences of heart trouble.
Mr. Jay was born in Washington, D. C., on Oct. 27, 1850, the son ofPeter Augustus JAY and Josephine PEARSON Jay. His grandfather, also named Peter Augustus, was Recorder of this city and a leader of the NewYork bar during the first quarter of the last century. Mr. Jay’sgreat-grandfather, John Jay, was the first Chief Justice of the SupremeCourt of the United States, Secretary of State, Governor of New York,
and one of the negotiators of the Treaty of Paris, which closed the Revolutionary War.
Mr. Jay was graduated from Harvard College in 1871 and from the Columbia Law School in 1876. Although admitted to the bar of this State he never practiced law, entering the diplomatic service instead. From 1885 to 1893 he was Secretary of the American Legation in Paris, and on his retirement from this office the French Government made him an officer of the Legion of Honor.
Mrs. Jay, who was Miss Emily Kane, daughter of Delancey Kane, survives her husband. His two sons also are living. The elder, Peter Augustus Jay, is counselor to the American Embassy at Rome and recently been Charge d’Affaires during a most important series of negotiations.mDelancey Kane Jay was a Major in the war and made a brilliant record in
action in France.
Among the clubs to which Mr. Jay belonged in this city were theKnickerbocker, Union, and University.

Emily Astor Kane, a sultry beauty known as “The Black Pearl” and a descendent of John Jacob Astor. Her great grand father John Kane, emigrated from Ireland to America in 1752. Though an ex-Catholic turned Anglican, he married Sybil Kent, daughter of evangelical Presbyterian minister, Elisha Kent, and soon became a prominent and wealthy merchant of Dutchess county, New York. Because he was a loyal Tory, the Continental Congress confiscated Kane’s property in the 1779 Act of Attainder. Kane moved his family behind British lines, first to Long Island and later to Nova Scotia, while he went to England to plead for the return of his assets. Though he did not dare return to the United States for some years, seven of his sons returned soon after the war and reestablished their father’s trading company, expanding it with a string of posts beginning in Albany and running to Buffalo, far into the interior of New York’s unsettled territory.
Her grandmother was Dorethea Astor, a daughter of John Jacob Astor.

Sixth Generation. Children of AUGUSTUS JAY+ and Emily Astor KANE+

1. Sixth Generation. Peter Augustus JAY+ Birth 23 AUG 1877 in New Port, Rhode Island Death 18 OCT 1933 in Washington, D C married Susan Alexander McCOOK+ Birth 12 Sep 1879 in Sea Bright, New Jersey, Death Feb 1978 in Washington, District of Columbia, They were buried in the Jay Cemetery. They had two children. Their oldest daughter died post op while they were in Argentina. This was a terrible tragedy for them. He resigned from the foreign service and returned to Washington.
After his death in 1933, his wife lived on in Washington and became a well known social hostess. She died at age 98 . She was a Vice President of the Jay Cemetery and they are both buried there.

The great-great-grandson of John Jay, Peter A. Jay studied at Eton College in England and graduated from Harvard in 1900. In 1902 he began a career with the US Foreign Service, which included assignments in Paris, Constantinople, Tokyo and Cairo. Jay served as US Minister to El Salvador from 1920 to 1921. From 1921 to 1925 he was Minister to Romania, where he assisted in negotiating that country’s repayment terms for wartime and post World War I development loans. In 1925 he was appointed US Ambassador to Argentina. He was present in May, 1926 when a bomb exploded at the door to the US embassy, an action that might have been a protest of the guilty verdicts in the Sacco and Vanzetti trials. Jay’s health began to fail while he was serving in Buenos Aries, and he resigned his post in 1926, afterwards living in retirement in Washington, DC. In 1928 he was appointed the US member of the Permanent International Commission, an organization created by the 1914 peace treaty between the United States and Spain. Peter A. Jay was the son in law of Civil War officer and prominent attorney John J. McCook.

2. Seventh Generation. Susan Mary JAY. Birth 19 Jun 1918 in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy Death 18 Aug 2004 in Washington, District Of Columbia married William Samuel PATTEN Birth 24 Aug 1902 in Pennsylvania Death Dec 1961 in Washington, District of Columbia. They had two children. She married Joseph Wright ALSOP in 1961. They were divorced in 1971, Birth 11 Oct 1910 in Avon, Connecticut Death 28 Aug 1989 in Washington City, District Of Columbia.

Susan Mary Alsop, 86, the grand dame of Washington society whose Georgetown dinner parties epitomized the nexus of political power and social arrival in the 1960s, died Aug. 18 of complications from pneumonia at her home.
Mrs. Alsop’s dining room was considered the absolute center of Georgetown’s social scene at a time when President John F. Kennedy’s arrival energized the once-sleepy capital. Her guests were the witty, the accomplished and the credentialed from the worlds of politics, media and diplomacy, and they used the opportunity to strike alliances, argue foreign affairs and bargain over the nation’s fortunes.
As the descendant of one of America’s first families (she was a Jay, as in John Jay, the first chief justice of the United States), she grew up privileged and firmly a member of the most elite Eastern Establishment circles. She dined with presidents and prime ministers, often at her home, and frequently at the salons of the rich and powerful, where the conversations often were continuations of parliamentary or embassy debates.
“All these stories will be in the history books,” she wrote to a friend in a letter, “but it does send a chill down one’s spine to hear them told by the actors in the drama.”
As a young woman, she had Sunday night suppers with Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt in the White House. The president, armed with a martini shaker, would urge guests to dip into a bowl of Russian caviar. “They called it Uncle Joe’s Bounty. The idea was to eat as much of that as possible,” she said in one of her books.
As a teenager, she had tea with Edith Wharton and was disappointed that the great writer was “a gossipy old girl,” she told a visitor 11 years ago. As the young wife of an embassy official in Paris, she was often seated beside British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (“He has decided I am . . . French . . . and nothing will deter him from speaking French to me.”) when she wasn’t drinking champagne with Noel Coward and the Duke of Windsor.
In Washington, widowed and remarried to newspaper columnist Joe Alsop, she always had her hair done just in case she was invited for dinner at the Kennedy White House. Hers was the only private home that Kennedy visited on his inauguration night, stopping in for a bowl of terrapin soup.
“Susan Mary loved to connect people together, young and old. Some were famous, some were not,” said her daughter, Anne Milliken. “All that mattered to her inquisitive mind was that her guests be engaged in living life.”
Susan Mary Jay was born in Rome, the daughter of a diplomat, and grew up in South America and Europe. Her mother attended the wedding of Russia’s Nicholas and Alexandra in 1894. She attended Foxcroft, a boarding school, in Middleburg and took courses at Barnard College. When her mother offered the 18-year-old either a debutante ball or a trip abroad, the young woman immediately chose the trip.
She began working at Vogue magazine in 1939 as a receptionist, writer and model. At the World’s Fair in Flushing, N.Y., that year, she and a friend were persuaded, for $75 an hour, to hang from parachutes in evening dresses until photographers were satisfied.
After World War II, she joined her husband, Bill Patten, in Paris, where he worked for the embassy. She immediately put them on the diplomatic social circuit, where she was described as “stylish, intelligent, loving and good, and very funny.” Christian Dior and other French designers let her wear their latest ball gowns for a pittance, which was necessary because she did not have the great wealth that others in her circle assumed.
In Paris, she began giving the parties for which she later became so well-known. Her letters, collected into a book titled “To Marietta From Paris: 1945-1960” (1974), are dizzy with upper-case names: Greta Garbo, Ho Chi Minh, the Rothschilds. Somehow it doesn’t read like name-dropping, perhaps because she also routinely reports catching the flu or asks her girlfriend back in the States to send “three cans of Bon Ami” or other bathtub cleansing solutions.
During the Paris period, she had a discreet affair with British diplomat Duff Cooper, engineered by his wife, according to Robert W. Merry’s biography of Joseph and Stewart Alsop, “Taking on the World” (1996). “It lasted until Duff’s death in 1953, and close friends concluded that it was the greatest love of Susan Mary’s life; but she never let it undermine her marriage or her family,” Merry wrote.
Patten died in 1960, after years of battling emphysema. She married his college roommate, columnist Joseph Alsop, the next year, and moved to Washington, apparently with full knowledge that he was gay. She said he was a good stepfather to her daughter and son, Bill Patten, although memoirs from the period say he treated her rudely in public.
The perfect hostess, however, knew how to smooth over embarrassing situations. When called upon to comment on the propriety of an incident in 1986 in which the Canadian ambassador’s wife publicly slapped her social secretary, Mrs. Alsop said the woman “must have been very tired, is all I can say. I think it just means two women were just worn out by people like myself dropping out at the last minute. . . . I think we just don’t talk about it. She’s such an important and marvelous friend. Nobody in Washington is going to fuss about it.”
Religion, however, was not on the approved topic list for dinner parties. “I don’t think that anyone that I would be apt to be fond of would discuss it,” she said in a 1999 interview. “I mean, I go to Christ Church in Georgetown every Sunday and I wouldn’t miss it, but I’ve never talked about it. It’s very private. It’s inappropriate socially, absolutely. It’s not like foreign policy, not anything that would be discussed in my world, I’m afraid.”
She volunteered at D.C. General Hospital, served on the board of the Sasha Bruce House and “would have joined Common Cause if Alsop had not instructed her otherwise,” her daughter said. The couple divorced in 1973 but remained friends, and continued to give dinners together. He died in 1989.
Mrs. Alsop began her literary career after the divorce. She first edited her letters, followed by “Lady Sackville: A Biography” (1978), “Yankees at the Court: The First Americans in Paris” (1982) and “The Congress Dances: Vienna 1814-1815” (1984). She became a contributing editor to Architectural Digest.
Her survivors, in addition to her son, of Worcester, Mass., and her daughter, of Salt Lake City, include seven grandchildren and a great-grandson.
A great Washington party, she once told a reporter, “is a question of electricity. It’s also luck. If you’re fortunate enough to get the secretary of state and the head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the night of an international crisis. . . . It sounds ghoulish, but it’s something you want to have.”
Then there’s the advice of Lady Diana Cooper, which Mrs. Alsop passed on to her daughter: “Oh, just give them plenty of booze and hope it will go.”

Eighth Generation. Children of Susan Mary JAY and William Samuel PATTEN
1. Eighth Generation. William Samuel PATTEN, Jr Birth 1948 in United States Living He married his cousin Katharine BACON Birth 1950 in Paris, France Living. Their grandfathers were brothers. They had three children. The marriage ended with divorce. He remarried in 2000.
Wrote My Three Fathers, a remembrance of his mother Susan Mary.
Patten devotes the last portion of his book to his own struggles and their resolution. He had been advised that in writing the book he should be tougher on himself than anyone else, and he takes that advice to heart. He married a cousin, and they had a son and two daughters. Rather than seek to live in the mold of his mother’s set, Patten started down a different path. He and his family moved to Maine, where he was involved in real estate development and published weekly newspapers for 18 years. “It’s no coincidence that the sons of very famous people have to redefine their arena,” Patten observed. “They sense they will never be able to compete with family members who walked with presidents and kings.” The Pattens grew apart, and their marriage dissolved, touching off an emotional crisis that drove him to therapy. “In my 30s and 40s, I changed dramatically. The whole issue of anger was addressed,” Patten said. He went on to divinity school and then served as a minister of a small church in Hubbardston. He and Sydney bought a farm in Princeton in 1998 and married the following year. In 2000, they purchased a retreat in the French Pyrenees and moved from Princeton into Worcester. Wanting to share what he had learned about identifying and expressing his emotions, Patten founded the Men’s Resource Center and now helps prison inmates deal with their anger and sense of alienation. Asked how his children had reacted to his book, Patten replied with a smile, “My children were very polite, but it may be more than they wanted to know.

2. Eighth Generation. Anne Emily PATTEN. Birth 1950 in Paris. Living. Married. John Wiliam MILIKIN Birth 1948 Death 2012 in Salt Lake, Utah
Anne Milliken was born in Paris, France, of American parents. She’s lived many places, but the longest in Salt Lake City, Utah. After writing a weekly column, “A Letter from Abroad,” for the now defunct Salt Lake Observer, she produced the daily talk show, RADIO WEST with Doug Fabrizio, at KUER 90.1, an affiliate of National Public Radio. Anne now freelances for KUER in Salt Lake.

2. Sixth Generation. DELANCEY KANE JAY+* Birth 13 MAY 1881 in Vevey, Switzerland, American Parents Death 1941 married Elizabeth Sarah MORGAN+ Birth 18 Jan 1889 in New York, New York, death 30 Oct 1975 in Windsor, Vermont, They were buried in the Jay Cemetery. They had six children. Five daughters and one son. He was a Lawyer in NY. Started a Family Trust Company. Died from heart disease at age 60.

He Lived in Paris as a child because his father was in the diplomatic service. Attended the Farnborough boarding school in England Graduated from Havard College with an M.A. in Government Graduated from Harvard Law School and then served as the Personal Secretary to the US Ambassador to England (Whitelaw Reid) Swam the Hellespont in Constantinople Married Elizabeth Sarah Morgan on April 30 1910 at her home (Wheatly) on Long Island. They gave birth to six children; Elizabeth Morgan Jay (1911), Peter Augustus Jay (1913), Sybil Kane Jay (1914), Theodora Moran Jay (1918), Augusta Jay (1921), and Katharine Archer Morgan Jay (1928) Helped to write the New York State Health Code Trained as an officer (at his own expense) at the Plattsburg, NY camp and served on the Editorial & Managing Board of the Military Training Camps Association of the United States newspaper (National Service). As a Major, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 307th Infantry Regiment, 77th Division, A.E.F., at Chateau du Diable, near Fismes, France, 27 August 1918 Family links: Parents: Augustus Jay (1850 – 1919) Emily Astor Kane Jay (1854 – 1932) Spouse: Elizabeth Sarah Jay (1889 – 1975) Children: Elizabeth Jay Hollins (1911 – 1991)* Augusta Jay Huffman (1921 – 2000)*

The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to Major (Infantry) Delancey Kane Jay, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 307th Infantry Regiment, 77th Division, A.E.F., at Chateau du Diable, near Fismes, France, 27 August 1918. With utter disregard of his own safety Major Jay left the shelter of his command post and personally directed the attack of his battalion against the strongly fortified enemy position in and about Chateau du Diable north of the Vesle River. From the beginning of the attack he stood on a railroad embankment within 70 meters of the enemy line, fully exposed to their observation, and under a continuous and intense fire of concealed machine guns, rifles, and artillery. From this position he continued to direct, control, and encourage his officers and men during the progress of the attack, and even after he had been wounded and until exhausted by loss of blood. He refused to be evacuated until he had given full instructions to his second in command and until all wounded enlisted men had been evacuated. His exceptional example of physical and mental courage was an inspiration to all his officers and men under the most trying and dangerous conditions.

1. Seventh Generation. Elizabeth Morgan JAY+* Birth abt 1911 in New York, New York, Death 1991 married Stephen M. ETNIER Birth 11 SEP 1903 in York, PA Death Nov 7, 1984 in Old Cove, South Harpswell,,Maine. Marriage ended in divorce. Married Harry B. HOLLINS III + Birth 22 Apr 1909 in New York, New York Death 11 Mar 1991 in New York, New York. She had two children in her first marriage. She and her second husband are buried in the Jay Cemetery. She was a Vice President of the Cemetery during the 1950 and 60.

Elizabeth Jay HOLLINS, an author who wrote under the name Elizabeth Etnier, died on Sunday at her home in Manhattan. She was 80 years old. She died of cancer, her family said. Mrs. Hollins wrote “On Gilbert Head,” a critically praised journal of her life in the 1930’s with her first husband, the painter Stephen Etnier, on an island in Maine.
The marriage ended in divorce, and in 1948 she married Harry B. Hollins. She published short stories and a novella, and in 1966 she edited “Peace Is Possible: A Reader on World Order.” Achieving world peace was a cause for which she worked closely with Mr. Hollins, who died in March. She was born in New York and graduated from Barnard College.
She is survived by two daughters, Stephanie Doane and Victoria Villamil; a stepson, Harry Hollins; four stepdaughters, Elizabeth Aldrich, Lilias Outerbridge, Evelina Kats and Angelica Braestrup; a brother, Peter Jay; three sisters, Sybil Waldron, Augusta Huffman and Katharine Bacon, and four grandchildren.

Her first husband was an artist that had 5 wives.
STEPHAN ETNIERS was born in September, 1903 in York, Pennsylvania. From 1915 to 1922 he attended the Haverford and Hill schools in Pennsylvania and Roxbury Tutoring School in Connecticut. He matriculated into Yale University class of 1926, transferring to Yale Art School in December 1922. Re-entering Yale University in 1923 he was later dismissed for poor grades. He entered Haverford College in 1924 and transferred to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied for four years.
From 1925 through 1929 he studied and apprenticed under the artists Henry Breckinridge, Rockwell Kent. Etnier pursued painting, launching his career with a solo exhibition at Dudensing Galleries, New York City in 1931. He soon moved to New York’s Milch Gallery, where he would remain until the 1960s.
In 1941, at the age of thirty-eight, Etnier suspended his painting career to serve in the United States Navy. In May 1942, Etnier was commissioned as a lieutenant and assigned as commanding officer of the USS Mizpah, a North Atlantic convoy escort ship. In 1944, he was reassigned to the USS Tourmaline in Boston, and later to the USS General Omar Bundy in San Francisco. He completed his tour of duty in 1945.[1][6]
Etnier purchased land in South Harpswell, Maine in 1948 to build “Old Cove”, his dream house and studio. The 1950s and 1960s mark a maturing, accomplished style in Etnier’s work. Although still traveling south most winters in his boat, his life took a more domestic turn as he re-adopted Maine as his permanent home and married his fourth wife, Samuella “Brownie” Brown Rose. They were married for thirty-three years and had two sons. During those years, he painted daily, exhibited widely and enjoyed popular support, artistic awards and media attention. On November 7, 1984, Stephen Etnier died at Old Cove, comforted by his two sons.

Her second husband was HARRY HOLLINS . He was a historian and wrote several books on The Conquest of War. His grandfather was a successful Banker in New York.
Harry Bowly “H. B.” Hollins (1854 – February 24, 1938) was an American financier, banker, and railroad magnate. He was responsible for organizing the banking and brokerage firm bearing his name, H.B. Hollins & Co. in 1878. He was born to Francis Hollins and Elizabeth Coles Morris. Hollins, a native New Yorker educated in private schools, was married to socialite Evelina Merseole Knapp on January 25, 1877. The couple had four sons, Harry B. Jr., McKim (Kim), John K. (Jack), Gerald Vanderbilt,[2] and a daughter, Marion. Colloquially known as HBH or HB. He was notable in New York society life. Members of the Hollins family were socially prominent figures and were regularly mentioned in the New York Times social diary…
Hollins, along with members of his family, are interred at the Episcopal Church Cemetery in Great River, NY..

BATH — Stephanie Etnier Doane, 73, of 2 Schooner Ridge, Bath, died March 4, 2010, at her sister’s house in Popham Beach, Phippsburg. The older daughter of artist Stephen M. Etnier and author Elizabeth Jay Etnier (later Hollins), she was born in Portland and spent much of her childhood in the house on Gilbert Head, Long Island, directly across the Kennebec River from where she died. Married to John P. Doane in January 1957, she gave birth to three sons and was a zealous and indefatigable mother. Her many enthusiasms included contract bridge, stamp collecting, needlepoint and wild animal husbandry. After raising her family in diverse locations, including Pakistan, Thailand, Ohio, Wisconsin, Texas, Michigan, and Connecticut, she retired to the Bath area and spent many years as an active member of the Mid-coast community. She is survived by her husband; two sons, Peter Etnier Doane, of Medford, N.J., and Charles Jay Doane of Portsmouth, N.H.; a granddaughter, Lucy Jay O’Brien Doane, also of Portsmouth; and her sister, Victoria Etnier Villamil, of Philadelphia, Pa. Her third son, Harry Sherman Doane, died in a car accident in 1980.

Ninth Generation. Children of Stephanie Jay ETNIER and John P. DOANE

1. Ninth Generation. Charles Jay DOANE* Birth 1958 Living married Lucy Jay O’BRIEN Birth 1960 Living. They have one child, Lucy Jay. He is on the Board of the Jay Cemetery.

2. Ninth Generation. Peter Etnier DOANE Birth 1960 Living

3. Ninth Generation. Harry Sherman DOANE + Birth 1961 Death 1980 in an auto accident. He was Unmarried. He is buried in the Jay Cemetery.

2. Seventh Generation . Peter A JAY+* Birth 5 Jan 1913 in New York, New York, Death 27 Feb 2000 in Havre De Grace, Harford, Maryland, married Gertrude McGINLEY+ Birth abt 1916 in Pennsylvania Death 1976 . They were both buried in the Jay Cemetery. He was a trustee of the Jay Cemetery. They had one son, also Peter A Jay.

Eighth Generation. Children of Peter A JAY+ and Gertrude McGINLEY+

1. Eighth Generation. Peter Augustus JAY Birth 1940 Living married Stephanie GERARD Living. They have two children. He is on the board of the Jay Cemetery.

Ninth Generation. Children of Peter Augustus JAY and Stephanie GERARD

1. Sarah Morgan Jay Living
2. William McGinley Jay. Living

3. Seventh Generation. Sybil Kane JAY Birth 4 Jun 1914 in Albany, New York Death 19 Dec 1997 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, married Francis P KINNICUTT Birth 29 Apr 1909 in New York, Death 27 Jan 1961 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts
There were three daughters from this marriage. the marriage ended in divorce and in 1950 she married William A. WALDRON Birth 1914 in Schenectady, New York Death Apr 29, 2009 in Haverford, PA.

-Sybil Kane Jay. Died Dec. 19, 1997 after a long illness. Wife of William A. Waldron, mother of Sybil Baldwin, Maisie Houghton, Elizabeth Kinnicutt, grandmother of Sarah and Benjamin Baldwin and James and Nina Houghton. She was predeceased by her first husband, Francis P. Kinnicutt.

A Voice from Old New York: A Memoir of My Youth.
Instead of the characteristically self-deprecating title she has given the account of her youth in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with idyllic summers spent on an island off the coast of Maine, Maisie Houghton might well have entitled her beautifully written autobiography What Maisie Knew. For her penetrating account of growing up in a dysfunctional upper-class family is inevitably bound to evoke for the reader Henry James’s keenly observant protagonist. Both Maisies are astonishingly perceptive; both Maisies are trying to figure out how they fit in and who they are. Maisie Houghton’s father, Frankie Kinnicutt, great-grandson of the distinguished physician who attended Edith Wharton’s feckless husband and brother of a redoubtable dragon of interior decoration, Sister Parrish, was the handsome, charming, martini- loving scion of a distinguished Wall Street family. Her mother, Sybil Jay Kinnicutt, was a direct descendent of the first chief justice of the Supreme Court as well as of John Jacob Astor; as if that were not enough, she was also a royal descendant of six kings of France and England. Such dazzling ancestry was, of course, artfully downplayed, if tacitly taken for granted, by both parents in the plain-living, high-thinking world of Cambridge in the 1950s, all the more so as the large amounts of money implied had, by the time Maisie Kinnicutt was born in 1940, much diminished. Her father still had enough, however, that he wasn’t obliged to pursue the serious career in law that was intended for him; instead, following his years as a naval officer in World War II, he decided to indulge his nostalgia and prolong his youth by returning to Harvard to work in the admissions office, attend the Saturday football games, and hang out at the Porcellian Club

Grandfather Francis P Kinnicut,
Francis Parker KINNICUT was born in Worcester, Mass. in 1846. He graduated from Harvard in 1868, and in 1871 from the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was Professor of Clinical Medicine at Columbia University, an attending physician at Presbyterian Hospital, and a consulting physician at several other hospitals. He was a member of the board of directors of the Cancer Hospital, and a former president of the Association of American Physicians. His wife was the former Eleanora Kissel, who died in 1910. His son, Francis H. KINNICUT, Harvard 1897 and Harvard Law School, was a partner of Hunt, Hill & Belts between 1910 and 1916, in independent practice until 1932, then an associate of Iselin, Riggs & Ferris..) He married Margaret Chanler EMMET, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. Temple Emmet. She was a great-great granddaughter of John Jacob Astor. .) His son, G. Hermann KINNICUT, Harvard 1898, was a partner of Kidder, Peabody & Co. He began his business career with J.P. Morgan & Co., and formed Kissel, Kinnicutt & Co. in 1910, which merged with Kidder, Peabody & Co. in 1932. He was a trustee of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center His daughter, Dorothy May Kinnicutt, married Henry Parish 2d. She was Jackie Kennedy’s favorite interior decorator and redid rooms in the White House. His grandson, Francis P. KIMMICUT, married Sybil Kane Jay, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Delancey Kane Jay, and granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Jay. His great-granddaughter, May Tuckerman Kinnecutt, married James R. Houghton, son of Amory Houghton, former Ambassador to France. Her sisters, Mrs. Ian Baldwin Jr. and Elizabeth Kinnicutt, were matron and maid of honor,

William Augustus WALDRON ’35, of Haverford, Pa., a former Trustee with deep family ties to Union who was a longtime Boston lawyer, former public official, and first full-time general counsel of the Massachusetts General Hospital, died April 29, 2009. He was 95. Waldron, who as a student was a Bailey Prize winner and Alpha Delta Phi fraternity member, became a Trustee in 1959 and served until 1975. He earned an Alumni Gold Medal for his service and was given an honorary degree in 1979. Three of Waldron’s nephews and niece Gail Waldron ’72 earned Union degrees, as did brother T. Van Antwerp Waldron ’36. Father Charles N. Waldron, was a member of the Class of 1906, and a faculty member and alumni secretary. Born in Schenectady, he earned a Union degree in 1935 and later earned degrees in political economy and law from Harvard University. During World War II, he held positions with the National War Labor Board in Washington, D.C. and New York City. In 1953 he succeeded former Congress- man Thomas H. Eliot as executive director of the Massachusetts Special Commission on the Structure of State Government (the Baby Hoover Commission). Later he served as commis- sioner of administration for Gov. Endicott Peabody, a special assistant attorney general, and a special counsel to the committee on rules of the House of Representatives. In the town of Wayland, Mass., where he lived for many years, he was chairman of the school committee and held other offices. In 1975, Waldron was engaged to organize the legal affairs of the Massachusetts General Hospital and he joined the hospital’s staff as its first full-time general counsel. He retired in 1981. He had also been a trustee of the Edmund Niles Huyck Foundation of Rensselaerville, N.Y., and the Taft School. He was married and divorced from Gertrude L. Nelson, of Chestnut Hill, Mass. and later was married to Sybil Jay Kinnicutt, of Cambridge, Mass., who died in 1997. He is survived by his son, Arthur N. Waldron, of Bryn Mawr, Pa., his daughter, Dorothy W. Waldron, of Wellesley, Mass. and his sister, Jessica N. Spacil of Seattle.

Eighth Generation. Children of Sybil Kane JAY and Francis P KINNICUTT

1. Eighth Generation. Sybil KINNICUT Birth 25 Apr 1938 in New York Living married Ian BALDWIN Jr. They have two children. Sybil was Trustee and Secretary of the Jay Cemetery.

Maise KINNICUT wrote A Voice from Old New York: A Memoir of My Youth. This was the story of her youth with her parents.

James R. Houghton is the retired Chairman of the Board of Corning Incorporated. Houghton earned Bachelor of Arts and master of business administration degrees from Harvard University (A.B., 1958, MBA, 1962). He is currently a senior fellow of Harvard College, a member of the Harvard Corporation.[1] Mr. Hougton was in a fellowship at Aspen Institute with Lawrence Auls in the early 1970s. He joined Corning in 1962. The company was founded in 1851 by his great-great-grandfather Amory Houghton. After holding a variety of management positions, Mr. Hougton was elected Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Corning in 1983. After retiring in 1996, he was Chairman Emeritus from 1996 to 2001; and then served as non-executive Chairman of the Board in 2001-2002. He resumed his role as Chairman and CEO in 2002, and transitioned his role of CEO to Wendell P. Weeks in April 2005. In April 2007, he also transitioned his Chairman role to Weeks.

Gift to Harvard. I am deeply grateful to Jamie, Maisie, and the Houghton family for once more demonstrating their commitment to Harvard and their support for the arts.” James R. Houghton is the senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation and recently retired as chairman and CEO of Corning Inc., the world’s leading producer of optical ﬁber and a global manufacturer of laboratory glassware, electronics, and light bulbs. He is a 1958 graduate of Harvard College and a 1962 graduate of Harvard Business School. Houghton is the seventh member of his family to lead Corning Inc., which was founded by his great-great-grandfather in 1851. In addition to his many roles at Harvard, he also serves as a trustee of the Corning Incorporated Foundation, the Pierpont Morgan Library, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he chairs the board. Maisie Kinnicut Houghton is a 1962 graduate of Radcliﬀe College. She and Jamie have two children: James D. Houghton ‘86 and Nina B. Houghton. The Houghtons are collectors of contemporary art, with a focus on glass

Obit–Elizabeth Morgan. Died at age 59 on March 25 at home in Lincolnville, ME. Beloved wife of Landon Thomas. Loving and admired stepmother of Landon, Stephanie and Frederic Thomas. Adored sister of Sybil Baldwin and Maisie Houghton. .

4. Seventh Generation. Theodora Moran JAY+ Birth abt 1919 in New York Death 1968 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, married Chauncey Devereux STILLMAN Birth Dec 14, 1907 in New York Death Jan 24, 1989 in New York. They had three daughters. Marriage ended in divorce. Married Philip RAHV Birth 1908 Death 1973 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. She was buried in the Jay Cemetery.

Chauncey Devereux Stillman (1907-1989), was an heir to one of America’s great family banking fortunes. Mr. Stillman was a Harvard man (Class of 1929), a graduate of the Columbia School of Architecture, and at various times Commodore of the New York Yacht Club, director of the National Audubon Society and New York Botanical Garden, WW II air combat intelligence officer, and pioneer in soil and water conservation on his Dutchess County estate. His philanthropic father, Charles Chauncey Stillman (1877-1926), was one of Harvard’s greatest benefactors. His grandfather, James Jewett Stillman (1850-1918) was the 15th richest man in America, a distinction achieved by parlaying his father’s Texas banking and railroad interests into, among other things, controlling interest in the National City Bank of New York (now Citibank). At age 26, grandfather Stillman bankrolled Porfirio Diaz in the successful overthrow of the Mexican government. For his trouble he obtained unlimited riparian rights on the Rio Grande at Brownsville, Texas, plus valuable Mexican railroad concessions. Mr. Stillman’s great-grandfather, Charles, was a Texas land and banking mogul who founded the city of Brownsville. There was nothing parvenu about Chauncey Stillman. On January 27, 1939, Chauncey Stillman married Theodora Moran Jay, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. DeLancey Kane Jay of Westbury, Long Island. The bride was a descendant of John Jay, America’s first Chief Justice, and Edwin D. Morgan, Civil War Governor of New York. According to the Times, the ceremony was held in a “tiny chapel in the home of the bride’s grandmother, Mrs. Edwin D. Morgan.” Coincident with his marriage the groom hired architect Bancel LaFarge, a lingering Beaux Artiste in an era of unforgiving Art Moderne, to design a Georgian style house on the highest point of farmland he had been acquiring since 1937. Beaux Arts or no, LaFarge’s design — especially the interior finishes — is thoroughly modern. I have read, apropos of architecture, of the “scaled down taste” of the ’20s and ’30s. Wethersfield exemplifies the statement. It is a house for a man who can afford anything, but neither cares for nor wants to be bothered with the architectural elaboration of earlier generations. Immediately to the right of the entrance is a small chapel. After his 1949 divorce, Mr. Stillman converted to Catholicism and soon became an ardent proponent of all things Catholic. During his lifetime he endowed the Stillman Chair for Catholic Studies at Harvard and was sufficiently active in Catholic charities to be honored as a Gentiluomo de Sua Santita by the Holy See. On a more domestic level he converted the small reception room at Wethersfield into a private chapel.

Eighth Generation. Children of Theodora Moran JAY+ and Chauncey Devereux STILLMAN
1. Eighth Generation. Emily Theodora Jay Stillman Birth 27 Oct 1934 in New York, New York. Death 9 Nov 1939 in New York, New York at age 5. Buried next to her mother in the Jay Cemetery.

2. Eighth Generation. Elizabeth Jay STILLMAN Birth Aug 4, 1944 in New York City Living married Stephan SHAFER Birth 1942 Living. They have three children.

Ninth Generation. Children of Elizabeth Jay STILLMAN and Stephan SHAFER

1. Ninth Generation. Theodora Marigot SHAFER Birth Aug 1 1970 in New York Living
2. Ninth Generation. David Jay Creal SHAFER Birth June 21, 1972 in New York Living
3. Ninth Generation. Miranda Hope SHAFER Birth May 21, 1979 in New York Living

3. Eighth Generation. M Theodora STILLMAN MD Birth Dec 15, 1945 Living married Roy Theodore BUDNICK Birth July 14,1946 Living. She is President and Trustee of the Jay Cemetery. They have two children.

MD and then Masters of Sciece at Vassar
Theodora Budnik is proud of the M.D. degree she received 37 years ago at UCLA. But the Town of Poughkeepsie surgeon said the diploma she clutched in her hands Sunday at Vassar College “will always be something special.” Budnik is understandably proud of the master’s of science degree she received at Vassar’s commencement exercises Sunday afternoon. It took her about nine years to earn it. Budnik decided to look into taking a couple of biology courses at Vassar about a decade ago after she returned from a medical conference. “There were so many advances in basic science since I’d been to college, and I wanted to bring myself up to speed, ” she recalled last week. A good friend of hers, David Jemiolo, was an associate professor of biology at Vassar, so she asked him if she could enroll in a course or two. At the time, Budnik had no intention of seeking an advanced degree, ”but the more I learned, the more I wanted to learn more,” she said. By 2005, she had mapped out a plan. And with Jemiolo’s help, she developed a research project that investigated the possible link between a certain virus and breast cancer. She said her research showed the virus is present in about one-third of all breast cancer patients. Jemiolo said he enjoyed working with someone who was a few decades older than the rest of his students. “Unlike the typical 20-year-old, she was not just interested in the particular facts we were studying; she wanted to learn everything about everything we were studying,” he said. ”She served as an excellent role model.” Budnik said that worked both ways: ”It was challenging competing against such young, vibrant minds.” Jemiolo said he once asked Budnik why she was spending most of her free time, year after year, in class or a research lab. “She told me, ‘Well, I don’t play golf, like a lot of other doctors. I’d rather earn a degree,’ ” he said. Budnik said earning the degree doesn’t mark the end of her education. It’s just the beginning,” she said, noting the cancer research she began at the college will continue with colleagues at Saint Francis Hospital. While her time in the classroom and the lab may be over, Budnik said she plans to sneak back to the Vassar Campus from time to time. “I’m a graduate of the college now — I get to use that great library whenever I want,” she said.

5. Seventh Generation. Augusta (Gutsy) JAY+ Birth 7 January 1921 in New York City Death 26 June 2000 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, marriage Huston HUFFMAN+ Birth 1920 in, Albany, New York, Death Mar 1980 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, They had four children. Both were buried in the Jay Cemetery.

OU Regent Huston Huffman envisioned the existence of a state-of-the-art physical fitness center at the University of Oklahoma. Because of his leadership and encouragement for its establishment, the OU Board of Regents named the Center in his honor. Three years after the groundbreaking ceremony in 1979, the Huston Huffman Center opened its doors to the University community in June of 1981 and immediately became a favorite place for students, faculty and staff alike. Funding for the facility was provided by student facilities system bonds, which were proposed by Governor David Boren and were finally approved by the State of Oklahoma in 1979. The Center is used more than 300,000 times each year by different members of the university family, who take advantage of the Center’s 104,000 square feet of training and athletic space, as well as the latest in health and sports science technology. A new student fee was started in 2001 to provide for an additional 47,200 square feet for the enhancement of the Center and its programs.
Huffman, a native of the state of New York, was born on November 27, 1913 in Albany. Huffman attended the Groton School of Massachusetts, and later received his bachelor’s degree in history from Yale in 1936. During his junior and senior years at Yale, Huffman was also captain of the Yale Boxing Squad. Upon graduation from Yale, Huffman came to Seminole, Oklahoma as a roughneck for Carter Oil Company (now Exxon). He later worked as a roughneck for Carter Oil as well as Texaco Oil until December of 1940. Huffman then entered the U.S. Navy and earned the rank of commander on the U.S.S. Finnegan, a destroyer escort. The Finnegan was stationed in the Pacific Theater during World War II, where Huffman was awarded the United States Legion of Merit and the Bronze Star for sinking a Japanese submarine.
With the close of World War II, Huffman returned to Oklahoma to work for Stanolind Oil (now AMOCO). Huffman’s work with Stanolind moved him from Tulsa, Oklahoma to Midland, Texas and even Bogota, Colombia. He married Augusta Jay on November 24, 1945 in Long Island, New York. Huffman decided to make Oklahoma his home and returned permanently to Oklahoma City in 1949. In 1950, he and Jack Malloy formed the Huffman & Malloy Oil Co., which was active in the oil business for the next thirty years. During his life in Oklahoma, Huffman was active in civic affairs, served on the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma City YMCA, and was a member and chairman of the Casady School Board of Trustees from 1962 to 1967.
In 1967, Governor Dewey Bartlett appointed Huffman to the Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma. During his seven-year term as an OU Regent, Huffman supported several major improvements at the University, but he was especially known for his timeless effort to establish a recreation center which would serve all students and not just varsity athletes. Huffman died on March 5, 1980 at age 66 in his Oklahoma City home before the completion of the Huston Huffman Center.
Huston Huffman Founded in 1950, H. Huffman & Co. invests in oil and gas ventures generated by its staff, affilliates, and industry partners. Today the Company owns interests in over 1,000 wells and one million gross mineral acres. These interests are located in seventeen states. In 2007 the Company participated in the drilling of 100 oil and gas wells.

6. Seventh Generation Katherine A JAY Birth Apr 14, 1928 in New York Death march 4, 2013 in Vermont married Robert BACON Birth 6 Aug 1920 Death 16 Oct 1989 They had six children.

A funeral service will be held at the Universalist Unitarian Church in Hartland Four Corners at 11 a.m. on Saturday, March 16 for Katharine Jay Bacon, 84, known as “Kitty,” who died peacefully March 4 surrounded by her family at her farm in Hartland Four Corners, where she had lived for 30 years. She leaves six children; 27 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. A grandson, Frank L. “Luke” McNamara, III died in 1982. Kitty was a direct descendant of John Jay, the First Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. She was the youngest of the six children of Delancey Kane Jay and Elizabeth Morgan Jay. Born at the Plaza Hotel in New York City on April 14, 1928, Kitty was raised in Old Westbury, Long Island. She attended St. Timothy’s School in Stevenson, Md. and Radcliffe College before marrying Robert Bacon in Paris, France in 1949 where her first three children were born; Katharine B. Perkins of Camden, Me., Sarah L. Bacon of Underhill and Charlotte B. Phillips of New York City. In 1954 the family returned to the United States and settled in Woods Hole, Mass. Three more children were born; Elizabeth J. B. McNamara of Bolton, Mass, Susan B. Lodge of Bedford, N.Y. and Robert Bacon, Jr. of Lexington, Mass. Kitty moved to Cambridge, Mass. in 1968. She was divorced from her husband in 1971. In 1978 she received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College and later studied at the Episcopal Divinity School. Kitty was an accomplished writer and painter. She authored three popular children’s books about the exploits of a Vermont grandmother and her many grandchildren during summer vacations at fictional Bell Brook Farm. Like her mother and grandfather before her, Kitty was also an avid horsewoman, gardener and a lover of dogs. This obituary first appeared in the March 14, 2013 print edition of the Vermont Standard

Eighth Generation. Children of Katherine A JAY and Robert BACON
1. Eighth Generation. Katharine BACON Birth 1950 in Paris, France Living. Married her cousin William Samuel PATTEN Birth 1948 in United States Living. Marriage ended in divorce. They have three children. Married Robert Cobb PERKINS in 1991. They live in Camden Maine.

7. ELIZABETH CLARKSON JAY+**Birth 2 JUl 1823 in New York Death 20 Oct 1891 in New York, New York. Unmarried. New York Social Hostess.

The funeral of Miss Elizabeth Clarkson Jay, daughter of the late Peter Augustus Jay, and granddaughter of Chief Justice Jay, was held in the Church of the Incarnation, at Madison Avenue and Thirty-fifth Street, yesterday.

FOURTH GENERATION

8. Fourth Generation .SUSAN MATILDA JAY and MATTHEW CLARKSON

8. SUSAN MATILDA JAY Birth 29 Nov 1827 in New York Death 2 Jul 1910 in New York City married MATTHEW CLARKSON Birth 23 Jan 1823 in New York Death 12 Mar 1913 in New York, New York. They had one child.

(VIII) Matthew (3) Clarkson, son of David (4) and Elizabeth Streatfeild (Clark- son) Clarkson, was born in New York City, June 23, 1823. He never engaged in profes- .sional or business pursuits, yet occupied his time most worthily in lines which particularly interested him and these were often to the advantage of others. He devoted considerable time to the compilation of his family’s history, and by his painstaking efforts perfected a vol- ume which was privately printed and relieves forthcoming generations of any necessity for research back of the present time. He is a Republican, and a member of the Episcopal church, but has not accepted office ecclesias- tic or political. He joined the Order of the Cincinnati and the Huguenot Society, and his latest place of residence was at his sister’s home, No. 16 West Forty-eighth street. New York City. Matthew Clarkson married, at SOUTHERN NEW YORK 1029 Calvary Church, in New York City, April 14, 1852, Susan Matilda Jay, born in that city, November 29, 1827, died at her home, No. 160 West Fifty-ninth street, June 29, 1910, daughter of Peter Augustus Jay (eldest son of John Jay and Sarah Livingston), born January 24, 1776, died February 22, 1843, married, July 29, 1807, Mary Rutherfurd Clarkson, daughter of General Nathan Clark- son and Mary Rutherfurd.

They had one son, Banyer, (IX) Banyer Clarkson, son of Matthew (3) and Susan Matilda (Jay) Clarkson, was born in New York City. The careful manage- ment of the family estate by previous genera- tions did not make it necessary for him to engage in professional life, and he was free to indulge his inclination for reading, intellec- tual pursuits and in travel. He is a Repub- lican, and attends the Episcopal church. His social connections are with the Society of Co- lonial Wars, Sons of the Revolution, the Hu- guenot Society, Badminton and St. Nicholas Society. His residence is at No. 26 West Fiftieth street. New York City. He married, at the Madison Square Presbyterian Church in New York City, December 6, 1900, Helen Shelton Smith, daughter of Nehemiah Denton and Harriet (Shelton) Smith.

??-1661. This was uninhabited Indian native land belonging to the Shenoroke Indian tribe.

1661-1745 The land was originally purchased from the indian tribe by John Budd. John Budd had immigrated to New Haven from England and was one of the early settlers in what became Rye. He purchased considerable amounts of land from the Indians, including the Manursing area and Rye Neck. He also purchased most of what is White Plains and Harrison today. It was his grandson, also John Budd, that inherited what was known as Budd Neck Patent that he sold to Peter Jay in 1745.

1745. The property was purchase by PAJ. He was a successful New York merchant and had married Mary Van Cortland. He wanted to move from the health dangers in the City. Two of his children, Peter and Anna Marie who were 10 and 8 had caught small pox and had been blinded by it. His oldest son Augustus who was 15 had a learning disorder and was probably intellectually impaired. His oldest daughter Eve was 17 and had “hysterics”. James, age 13 was a normal son! After he purchased the land, he built a farm house which was called the Locusts named for three locusts standing on the side of the house and they moved to Rye in 1745, the year John was born.

1745-1778. Their third son John was born in 1745, the year of their move and spent his boyhood life on the farm. A fourth son, Frederick was born in 1747 and the youngest child Mary was born in 1749 and died four years later. The Property was managed as a farm and the open field from the rear of the house toward the sound was mowed each year. This is the oldest continuously mowed field in the State of New York.

In 1750 at the age of 18 James was sent to Bristol with his Peloquin relatives and was educated. He graduated from Univ of Edinburg Medical School in 1760 and returned to Rye. He was knighted in 1763 for raising money for Kings College Medical School.

In 1764, John, graduated from Kings College and then Kings College Law School and passed the New York bar in 1768. He married Sarah Livingston, the daughter of William Livingston, the Governor of New Jersey in 1774 at age 28. During the Revolution he was assigned to first Spain and then Paris as a representative of our new country.

In 1766 Eve married Peter Munro, a Scotch minister living and preaching in Albany. In 1778 he was forced to return to Scotland and EVA with her son Peter Jay Munro returned to live with the family about 1780.

In 1773 Frederick (Faddy) married Polly Barclay worked and lived in New York as a trader. He became responsible for the welfare of the family during the Revolution.

1778-1784. REVOLUTIONARY WAR : JJ and SLJ were in Spain and France. Their son PAJ lived with his grandparents in New Jersey. Rye was no mans land during the Revolution. Peter and the family were forced to move for their safety. Faddy arranged for them to move to Fishkill. The Rye House was occupied and damaged by British troops. Mother Mary Van Courtlandt died in Fishkill in 1776 and was buried in a vault there. The family was robbed and they moved to Poughkeepsie. Peter died in 1784 in Poughkeepsie and was buried in the same vault as his wife. The House and property were willed to Blind Peter.

1785-1813. House and property were managed by Blind Peter. Living in the house were his new wife Mary Duyckinick, (married in 1789) , her sister Euphane, sister “blind”Anna Marika who died in 1791, brother Augustus who died in 1801 and his sister Eve Jay Munro who had returned from Albany with her small child Peter Jay Munro in 1780. Both Anna Marika and Augustus were buried in the family vault in the Stuyvesant orchard in the Bowerie.

1780-1801. John held a number of posts in the emerging federal government and as a strong Federalist was very supportive of the revision of the Constitution allowing more Federal power. In 1789 his last position, he was elected Governor of New York. He and Sarah moved to Albany. As Governor he supported a bill for the manumission of slavery in New York.

1801. JJ retired and lived in the house he had built on his mothers Van Cortland property in Bedford NY. Sarah Livingston Jay was in declining health and died a year after they moved. She was buried in the Family Plot in the Bowerie.

1804: The decision to start a family cemetery on the Rye property was made. John, while no longer living there was still very interested and involved with the family and what was happening in Rye. One of the factors that made the start of a cemetery on the family property was in 1810 realignment of the streets in New York was to occur. This made the Orchard were the family was buried tenth street. A move of the family plot became necessary. Also the death of the infant son of Maria Jay Banyer, Goldsboro Banyer and the same year of his father resulted in their burial in the East Meadow and the start of the Jay Cemetery. This was to be available for all related to JJ father Peter Jay. Then in 1807 the remains of family members that included his wife were removed from the Family Vault in the meadow in the Bowerie and were buried in a plot in the new Jay Cemetery in Rye.

1813: in 1813 “Blind” Peter died and was buried in the Jay Cemetery. The House after Peter Jay death was inherited by his brother John Jay. John Jay during this time allowed Peters widow Mary to continue to live there with her sister Euphane until her death which was in 1827. John Jay at this time had retired to the Bedford house and he gave the house and property to his oldest son Peter Augustus Jay.

1823: Sir James Jay died. After the Revolutionary War he had returned to live and practice Medicine in New Jersey. He did not marry but lived with Anne Erwin. His Loyalist standing had separated him from his brother. He was buried next to “Blind” Peter in the Jay Cemetery.

1829: John Jay dies in Bedford and is buried in the Jay Cemetery. The inscription on his tomb was written by PAJ and focuses on the many government roles that he achieved.

1827-1841. Peter Augustus Jay ownership and changes. Because of the damages that had happened with the British Occupation, the original house was torn down and the present Greek Revival house was built on the same site by PAJ. PAJ was a lawyer in NYC and used the Rye house and property a a summer home. His wife Mary Rutherford Clarkson died just when the new house was completed in 1838.

1841-1891 The house and property was inherited by PAJ oldest son, John Clarkson Jay, who used it during his life. He had married Laura Prime and they moved to the new house his father had built in 1841. Their seven children were brought up there. During this time the property was still an active farm. many changes to the property were made. The widow of Rev Peter Augustus Jay, Emile Post moved back with her four children in 1875. Also Their unmarried daughter Cornelia Jay grew up there. She Kept a diary of life on the estate. Also a sketch book.

1861-1865 CIVIL WAR. Lincoln presidency. Freedom of slaves, a project that had been strongly supported by JJ, PJM, PAJ, William Jay, JCJ. They were all active in the Manumission Society.

1891-1904. After the death of JCJ the house was used as a summer residence by his children and then rented. JCJ, II , Cornelia Jay who died in 1904. Alice Jay. ?others? The decision by the children to sell the property was made in 1900. There was also unhappiness among the children at the life style of JCJ. Much of his papers were destroyed.

1904: Property was purchased by architect Henry Ives Cobb. John Jay Realty Company with plans to restore the house and add additional houses of 5 to40 acres each. First development challenge. Further development of the property was planned including housing on Hen Island.

1905. The Jay Cemetery property was incorporated and kept separate from the sale of the property. The original trustees were John Clarkson Jay II, treasurer, Banyer Clarkson president, and John Jay, secretary. John Clarkson Jay III soon took over his fathers position and was treasurer from 1909 until 1940 as one of the second group of trustees.

1905-1910 House and property were bought and lived in by Warner Van Norden and his wife Grace Talcott and while development was planned it did not occur. In 1907 two new buildings were added. The carriage house which is still in use and the Zebra House where his several Zebras were kept. During this time they added a Butlers pantry, billiard room, and two paneled rooms from Europe. They also improved the outside gardens. A garden was developed in memory of his wife and used in fresh air summer programs.

1911. Possibly at the urging of neighbor John E Parsons the property was bought and maintained by Edgar Palmer. The land had been divided into potential building sites and Mr Palmer was able to arrange for purchase of them all. This began a period of relative tranquility for the house and property. He had married Zilph Hayes and they had one daughter, Zilph Palmer who after her fathers death in 1935, inherited the property and lived there with her husband Walter Devereau. During this time much of the outside was improved. A formal garden was installed. Also the rose arbor was maintained.

1935-1967 Devereaux ownership. The house and property was maintained.

In 1948 under the leadership of Mary Rutherfurd Jay, who was acting as President of the Cemetery during World War II. the Jay Cemetery was enlarged to the maximum size allowed by the State of New York. An agreement was worked out between Zelph Devereaux and Mary Rutherford Jay. Mary Rutherfurd Jay was very active with the cemetery. She wrote a history of the Jay Cemetery which was published and distributed to family members and also a large genealogy map of our ancestors.

1960-1967: The Devereaux decided to end their ownership of the house and property about 1960. A careful plan was worked out in 1967 To maintain the property and prevent development. The lower 120 acres became the Marshlands Nature Center under ownership and management of the County of Westchester, a side area was zoned for housing to help the City of Rye with property taxes, and they gave to the United Methodist Center the house and surrounding property of 23 acres to continue to use and maintain.

About 1970 an Advisory Board was established by the Westchester Parka Department to advise the use of the lower Marshlands Park area. The Jay Cemetery was represented by its president, John Du Bois. The goal was to maintain the property in its natural state. Also common use of the entrance road off the Post Road was negotiated.

1967-1983. Methodist Church Ownership. Start of the decline to maintain the PAJ house and up keep of the property. Methodist had growing financial problems. Unable to maintain the house they decided to put it up for sale. There were no buyers. Diane Milstein saw its value as a site for high priced houses made a bid and then delayed this. There was almost a sale to Hare Kirishners. It ended with sale to Milatein associates for 1.2 million There was little maintenance or changes to the house or property during this period. The Marshlands area was well managed by the County and became an increasingly popular place for people to walk with nature. The threat of housing on the upper land became an increasing threat in terms of its impact on the lower land. Karen Kennedy recognized the historic importance of the area and was able to get Federal Historic Landmark approval for the Jay House and property, the Jay Cemetery, the next door Parsons House and property and the house and property owned by the City of Rye. The sale of the upper house and property became an increasing concern to several groups. This included The Friends of the Marshlands, the local SOAR group, and others.

1983-1992 Milstein era. The development threat and its impacts on the area continued. There was the rise of the Jay Coalition. This started with concerned people meeting together. The Jay Cemetery acting through its President John Du Bois and his wife Sharon helped organize and support this. A group that included Sharon Du Bois, DeeDee Paschal from the Jay family, Rhoda Kornreich and Kitty Arreste from SOAR (Save our residential environment) Catherine Crane and others from Friends of the Marshlands grew in strength. The Demands for Condemnation of the property grew. Attempts at comprise were not effective. Battle lines were drawn. City, County, State and Federal approval were needed to block the development. There was need for a single strategy. Strength of the Coalition was its VERY tough woman negotiators. This was vs a VERY tough Developer. After delay after delay victory with purchase of the house and surrounding 22acres for 11.2 million by the State of New York occurred in 1992. The Jay Heritage Center was real. During this time the property and house were without any management and continued destruction was occurring. The house was broken into and vandalized. Overgrowth of all the gardens and orchard area. Death of trees, etc. Not only the main house was in very poor condition also all the out buildings were in disrepair. Zebra house and the large carriage house were in poor repair. The lower property under the management of the County continued to be used and maintained for the wildlife. The Jay Cemetery Board were active in their support to maintain the Marshlands wildlife area and supportive of the goals of the Jay Coalition.

1992-2000:. Development of the Jay Heritage Center as owner of the PAJ House and other buildings. The First project was to repair and restore the PAJ house, the Carriage House and the Zebra Barn. Need for fund raising and planning to restore the house and carriage barn. A group that included Rhoda Kornriech, Kitty Arreste, Dee Dee Pashal and others were able to accomplish this. Fund raising for restoration of the houses was begun.

2000-2012 The next stage was developing programs and uses for the property. The need to show the impact of not only the Jay family, but the Van Norden’s who built the carriage house and the Zebra barn, and the long ownership of the Palmer/Devereaux’s and his boating connections. The project needed new leadership. The role of Director of the Jay Heritage Center was assumed by Suzanne Clary. She showed wonderful leadership and enthusiasm in developing projects and raising funds and interest to maintain the House and Property. The original terms of the agreement gave the Jay Heritage Center control of the House and Carriage House, but the surrounding 20 acres was under county control. This became a growing problem that under Suzanne Clary leadership was resolved by negotiations completed in 2012 with an agreement giving the Jay Heritage Center control over the management of its surrounding 22acres. Development of programs continued during this period. The Marshlands continued as a nature Center. Alison Beale, the long term director retired and was replaced by Scott Williamson. The Jay Cemetery continued to be managed by a new group of trustees. Theo Budnick became president in 2000. Dr John Du Bois retired from his role as President at that time when he and his wife moved as Medical Missionaries to Panama. Sybil Baldwin retired as Secretary in 2010. Nicholas Bruen who was Treasurer for many years and helped build the cemetery financial security died in 2011 and was buried in the Cemetery. Huston Huffman assumed the role of treasurer and Trustee.
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1665. Birth of AUGUSTUS JAY in La Rochelle France. Father is Pierre Jay, a successful Huguenot Merchant in La Rochelle.

1685. Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes, which gave protection to the Huguenots in France.

1685. Augustus family in La Rochelle had moved to Bristol, England, because of the fear of religious persecution.

1686. Augustus returned to La Rochelle on one of his fathers boats and was smuggled by a half Catholic/half Huguenot Aunt on board a ship that sailed to Charleston, SC to escape his being put to death.

1690 Augustus Settled in New Amsterdam/York. Dutch colony settled on the Southern tip of Manhatten

1697 Married ANNA MARIA BAYARD. Her family came to New Amsterdam from Holland. They had four children, three girls and a boy. 1698 Judith, 1700. Mary 1702. Frances.

1728. Peter Jay marries MARY Van COURTLANDT. Her father was Mayor of the City of New York. She lived in the Van Courtland Manor in Yonkers. They had seven children that lived to adulthood. 1728. Eve. 1730 Augustus, 1732 James, 1734. Peter, 1737. Anna Marika, 1745. JOHN. 1747. Frederick (Fady)

1730: Success as a merchant in New Amsterdam.

1740: Small pox epidemic sweeps NY? Peter and Anna Marika are left blinded.

1745: Peter Jay Purchased tract of land in Rye NY and built house there. Moved his family to Rye from New York as safer for them.

1745: JOHN JAY born and grows up in Rye.

1750: James Jay returns to Peloquin family in Bristol for education.

1751: Father AUGUSTUS JAY dies. Buried at church of St Marks in the Bowerie. Start of the Jay Vault?

1760: James Jay, MD degree from the Univ of Edinburgh

1763: Sir James Jay knighted by King George III for collecting funds for Kings College

1765: First Colonial Congress in NY re the recent taxation by the King. Growing unhappiness with taxation laws of the King.

1766: EVE Jay marries Rev Henry MUNRO and moves to Albany. He has one daughter, Elizabeth, by his first marriage.

1767: Peter Jay MUNRO born to Eve Jay Munro and Henry Munro in Rye. They are living in Albany where Henry is rector of St Peters Church. He is a Loyalist.

1774: John Jay marriage to SARAH Van BRUGH LIVINGSTON. Her father is governor of New Jersey and a strong supporter of the separation from England.
Five children are born. 1776 Peter Augustus, in Livingston, NJ, 1782 Maria (Nancy) in Spain, 1783 Anna in Paris, 1789 William in NY, 1792 Sarah Louisa in NY.

1775: Start of the Revolution in Massachusetts.

1776: Declaration of Independence is passed by New York. War Starts. Washington is almost defeated in Brooklyn. He retreats. New York City is controlled by the Loyalists

1776: Westchester becomes no mans land with Loyalist and Separatist feelings. Skinners and Cow Boys are creating dangers. Peter Jay decides he must leave with his wife, who has severe arthritis, his two blind children Peter and Anna Marika, Augustus, and servants and at least three slaves. Frederick arranges for them to Move to the house of Theodore Van WYCK in Fishkill.

1776 to 1800 during the war the family is split. Sir James has Loyalist background and unsuccessfully tries to develop a plan for Peace living in London and NY. Eve is in Albany with her Loyalist husband the Rev Harry Munro. He is forced to leave the country and she will return to Rye after the war with her son Peter Munro. John Jay is with his wife Sarah either in Spain or Paris. He becomes the major negotiator of the peace agreement with The King. Their oldest son Peter Augustus is either with his Livingston or Jay grandparents during the war. Fady is living in Fishkill and Poughkeepsie.

During this time the New Government is also in crises. The Capitol of New York shifts from NYC, loyalist controlled, to Fishkill, to Poughkeepsie, and eventually to Albany.

1777: Mary Van COURTLANDT Jay dies in Fishkill. She is buried there in the crypt of Gysbert Schenck, the location of which is unknown.

1778: The Van Wyck house in Fishkill is robbed and the Jays loose most of their property.

1777: Articles of confederation passed.

1779: Frederick arranges for father Peter JAY and family to move from Fishkill to Poughkeepsie.

1780: John Jay with Sally go to Spain. Peter Jay Munro goes with them as secretary.

1780: “Sir” James Jay lives with Anne Erwin. they have one child who marries and has descendants

1782: Peter JAY dies in Poughkeepsie and is buried with his wife in the vault of Gysbert Schenck.

1783: Blind Peter inherits the Rye House and Property. Probably moves back to Rye about that time.

1783: Eve Jay Munro moves with her son Peter Jay Munro back to the Rye House from Albany. She continues to be a problem!

1783: Faddy Jay probably moves to property he inherited from his father in the East Bay in NYC with his wife, Polly.

1783: The British leave New York: George Washington makes a triumphal return

1785: John Jay is serving as Secretary of Foreign Affairs and living in New York.

1785 to 1790: New York serves as Capitol of the United States.

1785: Constitutional Convention and need for ratification of the new Constitution. John Jay was one of the three authors, with Madison and Hamilton, of the Federalist Papers.

1794: Peter Augustus goes as secretary to his father to London to draw the JAY treaty

1794: Fady Jay marries Euphame Dunscomb, the first cousin of his brother Peter’s wife. This marriage is not popular with the family.

1797: Albany is made Capitol of New York.

1797: John Adams elected second president of the United States. The French Revolution in progress.

1795 to 1801: John Jay elected Governor and lives in Albany. Leader of the Federalist Party. As Governor Is able to get NY to ratify the new Constitution.

1799: Frederick “Fady” Jay dies in New York and is buried there. The location is in the family Vault at St Marks. (With his first wife)

1800: Peter Jay Munro completed his Manor House in Larchmont. He lives in NYC, but uses it in the summer. 1794 to 1814: PJM and MW have twelve children, ten live to adulthood.

1801: Thomas Jefferson elected third president of the United States. Louisiana Purchase.

1801: Anna Maria Jay marries Goldsborough Banyer

1802: JJ wife Sarah Livingston Jay dies and is buried in the family vault in New York. John Jay retires from public life.

1802: JJ moves into the new house built on Van COURTLANDT property in Bedford.

1803: Living at Bedford with JJ are his daughter Ana who took over the role of her mother, William, and Sarah Louise. Marie Jay Banyer moved in with them in 1808 after the death of her husband and young son.

1804: The start of the JAY cemetery in RYE. The son of Marie Jay Banyer who died at age 1 in 1804 was the first burial. Her husband died two years later.

1806: Contents of the family vault from the Bowerie in NY were brought to Rye and buried in the cemetery plot.

1809: James Madison elected fourth President of the United States. War of 1812 with England. Burning of Washington. Star-Spangled Banner!

1810: Eve JAY dies in Rye and is buried in the Jay Cemetery.

1812: William JAY marries Hannah MCVICKER. 1813 to 1823 FIve children are born. Anna, Maria Banyer, John Jay II, Sarah Louisa, Eliza. 1833: last child, Augusta, “Fusty” is born. Five girls and one boy.

1813: “Blind” Peter Jay dies at Rye and is buried in the Cemetery. JJ inherits the Rye house, but Peter Jay’s widow Mary Duyckinck continues to live there.

1815: Sir James Jay dies and is buried in the Jay Cemetery

1817: Euphame Dunscomb Jay dies and is buried in the Jay Cemetery.

1822: Rye house given by JJ to son PAJ

1824: Mary Duckynick widow of Blind Peter dies in Rye. House now used by PAJ and family as a summer house. The original house is in poor repair, and plans are started to tear it down and build new house on the same site.

1825: John Quincey ADAMS elected president. Erie Canal is finished.

1829: JOHN JAY dies and is buried in the Jay Cemetery

1829: Andrew JACKSON elected president. Forced Indian migration and the Trail of TEARS

1830: William Jay inherits the Bedford retirement house. Lives there with his wife and children.

1831: John Clarkson Jay(PA) marries Laura Prime. Her brother, Frederick will marry his sister Mary Rutherford Jay. They live in New York, and will move to Rye in 1843.
1832 to 1848: They have eight children seven of whom live to adulthood. 1832 Laura, 1837 Mary Jane, 1839 Cornelia, 1841 Peter Augustus, 1844 John Clarkson II, 1846 Alice, and 1848 Sarah

1835: Mary Rutherford Jay Prime dies in childbirth with her third child. Very tragic death. A tall monument is placed in the Jay Cemetery.

1843: Peter Augustus Jay dies and is buried in the Jay Cemetery in Rye. Last words were: “Read the BIBLE and believe it”

1843: John Clarkson Jay (pa) inherits the Rye Property and lives in the new house. He is an original member of the New York Yacht Club. His sailing boat, La Coquille, is part of the NYYC racing fleet. He has also become an expert on sea shells and has developed an extensive collection. This was obtained after his death by the NY American Museum of Natural History.

1861 to 1865: US CIVIL WAR Those serving
1861: Rev Peter Augustus Jay, Growing up as he did during the Civil War, a time when Rye was active securing volunteers, he raised a local militia for the Union and became its Captain. With several absences due to the war, he ultimately graduated #14 from Columbia College in 1863. The summer afterwards, he went with his company to Harrisburg, and to Fort Marshall near Baltimore and in 1864 could be found with his company at Fort Richmond, Staten Island. Later his company had the honor of attending Lincoln’s inaugural in 1865.

1862. John Clarkson Jay II, During the Civil War served as a Pvt., Co. F., 71st Regt., New York State Militia (National Guard). Enlisted on 27 May and mustered out on 2 Sep 1862. 1864: Served as acting Asst. Surgeon, US Army, in Armory Square Hosp., Washington, DC, and in Sedgwick General Hosp., Greenville, LA.

1863 Cornelius Jay Du Bois, Gettysburg, PA Served as Captain of Co D, 27 Reg Vol of Conn, in Tooks brigade under General Hanock. Wounded at the Gettysburg and saved by his brother, Henry. He was Decorated for his Bravery at Gettysburg
1864, Service in 40th Conn regiment under Gen Hooker Contiinued to serve as adjuvent

1861-1865: Henry Augustus Du BoisII Civil War: Surgeon Served under General Sheridan. Inspector of the hospitals of the Army of the Potomac. Was involved in Gettysburg where he saved his brothers life. He found his brother mortally injured after the second day. Was able to save him.
1867 Fort Union. New Mexico Surgeon involved with the Indian territory

1861-1865: Col William Jay. Civil War. An ardent patriot, he put aside his studies for the time and became a member of General Wool’s staff, and with the rank of 1st Lieutenant, and later serving on the staff of Generals George E. Morrell and George Sykes, and from January, 1863, to May, 1865, on the staff of General George G. Meade, and he took part in very many of the battles of the War. He was brevetted Major in April, 1864, “for faithful and meritorious services in the field,” and, later in the same year, was brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel “for gallant and meritorious services during the recent campaign, resulting in the fall of Richmond and the surrender of the insurgent army under General R. E. Lee.”

1888: Laura Prime JAY, the wife of JCJ dies and is buried in the Jay Cemetery

1891: John Clarkson JAY dies and is buried in the Jay Cemetery. The Rye house and property are inherited by the children.

1894: Col William JAY Inherited the Bedford house from his father and lived there with his family. Col. Jay served in the Grand Army of the Potomac during the Civil War. Old Fred, the horse that carried him safely through such horrific battles as Gettysburg and Chancellorsville, is remembered on a stone marker at the entrance to a garden near the west end of the house.